How to break a creative block. Pt.1
Today I thought I would discuss why I have a creative block in sculpting.
After all the art was shipped out to China, hand made art just lost its allure.
People don’t realize it can cost up to ten thousand dollars to have something cast, it can take a year to do a beautiful sculpture. And there are so many reproductions of art in every area cheap. People are now willing to download art for free, music, poetry, pictures all types of art have somehow become free. It’s almost impossible to - get money for art so this is what caused my creative block feeling I had no audience for it or hope of ever selling it.
For me this is silly, because I remember as a young woman starving and being so sad I had to sale my art. I couldn’t afford to keep my own art! Then I would wish I could just take my time and do museum quality work with no pressure to sale. I am in this position yet, I find I have a block.
I think part of that is when I worked on the virtues, my last sculpture in virtue was Faith.
You can see Faith on my website. I had one of my virtue sculptures stolen, I also had a sculpture stolen in a gallery, called the big catch. I think my block in sculpting comes from my lose of faith in people.
When I sculpted the virtue faith, I was hoping to find faith in people.
When I sculpt a work of art, I feel its like challenging myself to conquer different things. For example I consider many of my very beautiful, highly original one of a kind dolls a total quest to conquer vanity within myself. Some of my dolls have sold for up to ten thousand dollars, but they take so long, and I would have to travel to shows and promote my work. And as I became older I realized I was really just working most of my life to pay for my habit. In all this I lost motivation- but worse I lost faith in people.
So, this is why I am running a contest and I thought it would be cool, for me to write as I break my block in sculpting. And in my poetry contest, I am hoping to find an audience for my sculpture of envy. I am hoping you will all inspire me to believe there is good in people, and that people will appreciate one of a kind art again, because that seems to be something lost anymore.
Please send your poetry inspirations soon thanks for reading my quest to conquer an artistic block, and please read about my poetry contest. And enter. Any person is eligible including website owners. Anyone who can read an write is invited to send me ideas and inspirations to help me want to sculpt again. To win the Angelic Splendor perfume poetry award!
I can tell you this, the first thing I always do is get my personal life in order. To help a block I can’t make anything if everything in my life is a mess, so-
I am get my house clean, I get my studio clean, much like I am preparing to bring home a new baby. This always helps. Now my studio is clean.
I also as a new years resolution bought an exercise bike because I have been lazy and I am losing energy. I have been riding it two days and I feel like I am getting a bit more energy but I am really sore today.
I have not drug out my clay yet, so until the clay and armature is out, I haven’t managed to begin to break my sculptural block. Yet, inspiration -- looking for inspirations!
01-01-09 My new years resolution is to break my block and get my lazy butt in better shape! If we feel good about ourselves it drives energy into our creations.
If our life is in order, our creations are in order, our words are in order. If our life around us is chaos, creations become chaos - never finished. Or never meaning anything/
Thanks for reading, your interest is very important to me.
I HOPE MY QUEST FOR THE CONTEST AND TO BREAK MY BAD HABITS
AND BE A BETTER PERSON AND ARTIST INSPIRES YOU THE SAME.
A doll invention lazar doll original -- breaking the creative block.
9:55am 01-01-09 Lets all start our new year out right.
Happy new year, From Terri Lockmiller Jacobus Tiara designs since 1983
I hope you all do look at my doll creations because I poured my life, heart and soul into dolls, I felt they became vanity, now I must feel they become inspirations to you all.
To conquer the seven deadly sins, within us all. And as I have been reflecting envy, I have realized some things about myself, that’s what art is all about.
If its not about growth in my opinion, its not art.
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