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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