Today, I will write some insights on creativity. Sometimes, through the fatigue associated with my office work, I feel that I am not as creative and effective in my artistic activity as I would like to be.
The fact that I have not been preparing the subsequent editions of “Diaries” for some time is a prime example of this. As a result, should I quit my job and put everything on one card, on my passion? Perhaps yes. Nevertheless, I see a bit of an upside to the current situation: financial independence (I am creating for myself, for future generations, and not fulfilling the whims and demands of clients – I am convinced that this would quickly kill my passion for what you see on my blog, my Dear Friend). Moreover, I am convinced that with a surplus of free time, I would not be a more prolific artist at all. I know myself, and I just know that time could pass through my fingers, and my productivity could increase, but slightly. Moreover, creativity can’t be scheduled and forced (unlike working with Excel tables).
There is no such thing that I get up and plan that I will prepare a set of photos (such as “Transience”) in the near future.
In terms of my creative activity and creativity, it’s really up to an impulse, an electrical discharge in my brain close to insanity, telling me that a particular idea that has suddenly appeared in my head is concrete and sensible enough for me to pursue. Let me emphasize it again: forcing such a thing on myself is impossible. The photo sets I have created are an excellent example of the fact that I have already really created something from nothing. Still, in fact, the ideas for the final work appeared in my head spontaneously. Did I develop a lot of photo sets? As of today (I wrote this text on June 1, 2024), there are 26. In my opinion, this is not an impressive number, but apparently, it had to be so.
