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book one:
into & info
Excerpt from
exposé
empty canvas : wondering mind acknowledges the difficulty – the
freeze-up – many would-be creatives experience when faced with the blank
paper, the lump of clay, the pile of fabric scraps – whatever – without
any idea of where and how to begin. It simply offers ways into the
creative playground. And the best way, as Julia Cameron puts it, isn't
to think things up but to get things down.
If you rightly intuit that creativity, like freedom, is a given – coming at
the beginning, not at the end – yet you remain daunted in the face of
the empty canvas, perhaps this series of e-books will be a helpful
companion as you walk your creative path.
empty canvas : wondering mind affirms that we are creative creatures
from our first cell-division. It claims that there is nothing to do and
nowhere to go in order to be that which we already are: Creation,
creating.
It doesn't propose to recover or heal or attain creativity. Its underlying
assumption is that creativity isn't something separate from our pulsing
body and mind. The notion that creativity is something we must attain,
acts to block the naturally flowing creative spirit.
Instead, it proposes that innate creativity is fuelled by wonder and
wondering and that it is quietly waiting for us now, within this set of
circumstances, exactly right here.
The activities and projects in this series of e-books are opportunities to
examine and release the notions that act to smother our natural state of
creativity – the ideas, assumptions and opinions we have about it.
Because these are the saboteurs that demand our work be perfect from
day one, that make it hard for us to face the empty canvas with
beginner's mind. [...]
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what's in book one?
1 contents of entire series
2 exposé
3 a series of nine
4 a web of wonder ...
5 crucial concepts
6 myth-busting
7 creation is where ...
8 r&r
9 the X-file
10 "We have no art ..."
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