"CONNECT WITH YOUR CREATIVITY"

What does that mean and how do I do it?

Images I shot for The Holiday Market with AGMES Jewelry

I just put the kids to bed; it wasn't the easiest bedtime, but also not the hardest. I would usually feel completely drained at this point of the night regardless of the behavior of my small and unruly children, but instead, I was buzzing with energy, about to burst. I had an idea for a shoot that had been percolating for a week or so, and I had to get it out. I decided to set up quickly for the morning, take a few test shots, and then commence my nightly wind down (it’s a process); two hours later, I finished the shoot and was sitting at my computer editing (something that I adamantly avoid after work) and definitely not winding down. Unsurprisingly, I did not sleep well that night, but I had a series of shots that I was very excited about.

“Sometimes our ideas come through bolts of lightning. Other times only through effort, experiment, and craft”,

- Rick Rubin, The Creative Act

Creativity is a fickle thing; I am so full of it at times that I feel I might burst, and at others, it is nowhere to be found. I am currently experiencing the former; let's call it a state of creative overabundance. It is uncomfortable. There is a fallacy that being immersed in this state feels good. Maybe for some people, that is the case, but for me, it feels a whole lot like anxiety.