Reflections on Creativity and Life

Monthly Archives: June 2010

Direction or Obstacle?

Here is a question for you. If you have some big thing happen to you in your life that looks like it is slamming the door   on a plan that you have, is it directional or is it just another

Jump

When I was really young, I did not know there were any limits. I was 18 and I wanted to start a dance company. I would call it absurd ballet in America because I did not take dance lessons so

Risk and small potatoes

We all are afraid of risk. I am thinking what if I do not sell really well in France and I have spent all my money to get there etc. What if I fail, What if nobody likes my work.

Incredible Lightness

NOthing in life is light. There is no incredible lightness of being. There is only incredible heaviness of being. Everything you do and say and think is recorded. People would like to think everything is no big deal. Everything we

comments

I got a comment on my blog from someone who said that blogging was like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. Well I tend to disagree. I think it is just the oppposite. The thinking process that

Doing Something Foreign

I got this commission once to do some portraits of three cats. I don’t do cats but the client said he really liked my style so I said ok. It turned out to be a very fun project for me.

Another Country

Why is another country so different in feeling than the one you came from?  It is probably because of the infinity factor. Every person is unique and all the habits we acquire are unique too and so add that all

Exit

I saw a movie last night called Exit through the Gift Shop. What  a revelation. It is about this guy who films street artists but does not make movies. He just films them and puts the tapes in a box.

the process

People say to me all the time” It must be so fun to be an artist. You get to do what you love all day long.” I cannot tell you how many time I have heard that very phrase, I