I am having a creative breakdown.
I love the fall. I love the fall fashion. I love red, brown, and even burnt orange. I love walking and hearing the leaves under my feet crackling. I love apple cider and ginger snaps. I love tea and soup and cuddling with warm blankets. I actually love the weather and the sky and the way the naked trees look. I love scarves and boots, oh I love rain boots. You see, I love Autumn, I really do. I look forward to it.
The downfall about Fall... The artistic sky that creates a beautiful landscape for blank canvas and a charcoal pencil seems dreary and depressing. Sometimes I can feel trapped, trapped because it is cold and trapped because I want to feel free. There is something about being bundled with scarves that can feel somewhat restricting, somewhat suffocating.
I know that during this beautiful time of year I should feel inspired but I don't. I feel blocked. Everything I make, I am not happy with. It is so frustrating. I look at my creativity for an outlet that I don't get anywhere else. So I am writing and trying to push through those barriers, and trying not to let that naked tree and its creepy hand branches squeeze all of it out.
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I have heard it said that you grow the most as an artist when things feel the worst and yet you keep creating. Not sure if that is always true, but I know there is something to be said for continuing in your craft even when the muse doesn't hit you, doesn't even come close to where you are. There is something to be said for doing it because it is one of your gifts, something that you were meant to do--and placing a demand on that gift lets you know that it is always there; maybe not perfectly, maybe not easily, but it is irrevocable and as intrinsic to you as your thoughts and your beating heart...
Keep making, keep creating. It's part of who you are, Laura.
Thank you Jess, that is encouraging.
Laura, your friend Jessica said it beautifully, much better than I could and I completely agree with her. You are beautiful and your work is amazing! I hope to see you again someday...
Post more pictures! I want to see lots more!!! :)
love the new pics;-)
dear itsy,
i would love for you to write a new post.
love, titsy
Laura,
Isn't it time for you to write another blog post? Just wondering! :)
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