FEEDING THE CREATIVE SOUL

Yesterday I got to feel my creative soul. I knew my creative soul was hungry, but I guess I had not realized just how hungry it was. Expression of our art is usually a solitary event. Classes can bring together many like minded, like medium people to focus on a like project and each create a like version of the same thing. This is purposeful and satisfying and offers a lot of opportunity to learn something new and to stretch. Then we go back to our solitary studios and integrate what we have learned and continue to create.

But yesterday was different. Four women, each with a different medium came together in a relaxed and easy way. We shared food, laughter, mimosa's and a little of ourselves with each other. We entered the studio with no lesson to learn and no goal to be reached. As the host, I had a loose idea of a project to offer and the basic materials needed. After that, all that was required was to just let go and let the process happen. Magic Happened!!!

Perhaps there wasn't one piece of "FINE" art created. That doesn't matter. What does matter is the freeing of the spirit, the sense of adventure and the discovery that was the main event of the day. Each woman expressed something much more authentic. Something that, in my observations, was so True to that woman... a mini self portrait... though that was not at all the intent. Bypassing subject matter allowed each one to become the subject of her own expression.

My creative soul was hungry... not for work, nor for technique... but for that moment of connected sharing of the impulse to express... the unselfish opening of the heart that enfolds, if just for a moment, everyone who steps into the circle with support, encouragement, expansion and FUN! As I step back into my studio today, it is a little less solitary as the walls still echo with chatter, laughter and life. Thanks Girls!