Archive for March, 2012
It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. (Oscar Wilde)
Photo by Mark Montalban
The boatman picked me up at the dock when the sun was still busy trading sob stories with the leftover stragglers at the bar. The water, dark purple with slivers of pink and chrome, was split by the keel of the palm boat, painted blue and white but appeared gray to my squinted eyes that morning. I didn’t get any sleep because Marco snored all night. He does this when he’s had too much to drink. When this happens I usually spend the night in the study, but while on vacation in an obscure backpacker’s resort, there was no refuge. I wasn’t interested in heading outside to watch the other tourists head off in pairs to their rooms.
I told Marco the previous day that he wouldn’t be able to get up for our planned island expedition, but he insisted on booking the trip anyway. After my hasty scrambling didn’t even interrupt the tornado in his throat, I left with a few pesos, a magazine, a pack of Spanish rolls and my sunglasses, and met Puding, a dark, quiet and bearded man, and boarded his wobbly boat.
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By Yi-Hui Chang
Blue ink fountain pen on paper
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A response to this Creative Exercise: For visual artists – use only one color of the chosen medium (i.e. black charcoal, green pencil, red acrylics, etc.) to make a drawing of the temperature change. For writers – incorporate 5 to 10 colors to describe your experience of weather change throughout the day.
What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
“On a Foggy Day”
By Kanako Shimura
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A response to this Creative Exercise: For visual artists – use only one color of the chosen medium (i.e. black charcoal, green pencil, red acrylics, etc.) to make a drawing of the temperature change. For writers – incorporate 5 to 10 colors to describe your experience of weather change throughout the day.
The problem is acceptance, which is something we’re taught not to do. We’re taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again. (Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)
Impact
Cherisse Garcia
Charcoal on Paper
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. (Albert Einstein)
