Post on 15-Jul-2015
The Creative Process
A Final Totem on Risk, Reflection & Breaking Patterns
Risk, Reflection & Breaking Patterns
Risk-Taking• Studio environment: Steeped in exploration & confidence to follow-through w/ideas
• Business environment: Not encouraged, much less listened to innovation at all
• RESULT: Creative vocation that bridges the gap between these worlds. (Passion)
Where
• Service-oriented: Without taking risks on ideas, others & process are deprived
• BNW Production Example
• Journal: Perfect forum to do this
• “Seamus „n the band” & “Football Sunday” Journals (Gift of writer‟s block)
Risk, Reflection & Breaking Patterns
Risk through “confrontation”•November 30th class: Risk taking dissolves the power of fear or normative distraction
• Clarity and confidence in subsequent ideas
• BNW Example: Final Counting exercise (Unfocusing)
• This has been made vitally apparent during personal turbulence
• Since 1994 it‟s been a blessing to realize how this process can be leveraged in life
Totem Project• Delving headlong into the creative & studio environment again
• Medium, technique and composition are all a challenge (“Flow”=Clarity)
• Feeling the “need to get it out”
Risk, Reflection & Breaking Patterns
Reflection• Journaling: Practice reminded me of family trips at early age and power of memory
• Seeing my thoughts on paper
• “Tell a Story” Example in journal of Cargill campaign
• Guthrie Example in journal about need for arts & experience
• Superior Example in journal about “what makes me tick”
•Keeps thoughts observed,accountable to yourself and engenders idea development
Risk, Reflection & Breaking Patterns
Breaking Patterns• Fighting daily complacency, think dynamically: Saw this in journal suggestions
• “Listen to a radio station…” or “Take a new route to work”
• Skydiving Example
• Notice new perspectives, people or patterns…literally things in a different light
• Then record these different experiences…(Reflection)•Then take the risk to connect them or explore an idea that they spur...(Risk-Taking)
Breaking patterns Reflection Risk-Taking
Risk, Reflection & Breaking Patterns
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