Grey, windy, rainy February days open and close… the week went by without highlights and I seem to have lost my mojo, nothing good came out of my hands. Nature as well as I are waiting for the sun to return and days like the one on the photo…
Fiday haiku
Photo made by my friend Lena Schreijenberg
| de zon in mijn rug ver achter de lage dijk breken de golven |
the sun at my back the sound of breaking waves, far behind the low dike |
I submit this haiku to Recuerda Mi Corazon where our lovely hostess Rebecca brings us all together to share a haiku on Friday: Haiku my Heart.
So… my mojo is gone but I’ve experienced days like this before. I am familiar with times when nothing seems to work, when I feel detached from my art and myself and am a little lost. I know it is no big deal and the flow will return, one just cannot force it. I have some tricks up my sleeve to get through these times and one of them is to take a colouring book and just ‘colour’ without thinking too much. Another thing I do is make ATCs, ‘just’ glue some pieces of paper and add a bit of paint’ on a small card. It doesn’t have to be pretty and if I don’t like it I can throw it away, but it is important to create ‘something’ to keep in touch with my creative side. Here’s what came out of my hands yesterday.
When I uploaded the above photo to my computer, I noticed I had some more photos/ATC’s waiting in line. I created these last year but never showed them on my blog…
Night building
“Zetti” girl
Intuition
… and now I’m off to put on the music in my atelier and splash some paint on paper. I don’t know what comes out of that but I figured that adding color, any color, to the day will do me good. I wish you all a colorful day.
Creative ATCs and lovely haiku ~ we all have ‘those days’ ~ I try to look at it as a need for a respite and perhaps, that I am ‘pushing the envelope’ and need to ‘let it be.’
Happy Day to you,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Even a low dike can keep back the mighty sea! Thanks for taking us along to listen to the waves break.
Don’t we all have times like these, Marit?! For me “just getting on with it” even when I don’t feel like it is a way to light that spark of creativity once again. As Julia Cameron says in her wonderful book “The Artist’s Way,” just “showing up at the page” everyday is important, even if you end up throwing it all away. In that book she has some great suggestions to help blocked artists find a sense of flow, again. When painter Georgia O’Keeffe was feeling like her art was going nowhere, she restricted herself to drawing only with black charcoal on large pieces of newsprint paper for days and days until, she says, “the things I had in my head to put down could no longer be expressed without using color.”
Thank you for sharing some glimpses of blue sky here today! We have lost ours with rain on the way so your haiku was perfect. Love seeing these cards and your art-making. Always. You so inspire me! I hope this finds you dancing to some music and paint my friend! XO