The other day someone I know every so slightly asked me after I told them that I was going to my studio, if I was feeling creative. I was a little surprised, but came back with a quick rejoiner of “you know the old saying, 95 % perspiration.” She laughed, end of conversation, we parted ways.

But I’ve been thinking about this. Thinking about whether you are a sculptor, a writer, a dancer, an actor or an Abstract Landscape painter, mostly you just go do it. You go to the studio or to your study or wherever you work and just pick up where you left off or if you are starting something new, you just start. It’s not really a matter of whether you are “feeling creative”, it’s more about returning to the crime scene (this metaphor probably coming from watching too many Criminal Mind TV programs) and repeating or elaborating on your work. As an artist, no matter whether you are a Landscape painter or whether you make little green globs and throw them at the wall, your job is to return. I think that the creative part comes with the returning, over and over and over again. Because the creativity comes with the intention, stated or not, and the process that comes from the scribbling of words, or carving pieces of wood, flickering light or moving pigment mixed with a medium on a canvas, over and over and over.

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