Anisette Studio

From Muddy Brook Cottage Studio 1/7/2024

May your day be sunny and bright, even if the sun itself is not in your sky!

In my research there are what I call “Bingo Moments!” These are where I run across information that fits what I want to use in my writing project. Find someone who voices your opinion can feel very rare. In this instance the term is trance. To be specific a creative trance. I thought how accurate! At last! When I am creating that is exactly what it becomes. And it was this sense that has made me curious about how the mind works during the creative process. It has been months now I have researched neurobiology and the creative process, and consciousness in the hope to understand the way the mind processes and sends out its messages so that an individual can heal mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually, as this is what art therapy and other forms of therapy do. Shibui is an art form, so it fits those criteria of healing, but how? Does it help repair something in the brain? We know the body can heal itself, and the brain/mind is in charge of many abilities!

I am glad to learn that there are those scientist and counselors asking questions and developing theories about consciousness and the creative process. This trance state is not exclusive to artist. It has had bad wrap as a verbiage. It is defined and coupled with the idea that it is something mediums, psychics do, or it is applied to daydreaming as if that is a bad thing to do! However, it is not a bad thing to do. As someone who writes and creates art it is a useful state of being. It is where ideas gel. If observed, the state is one where the rest of the world is shut out, so I can focus. The word trance works nicely! Now to learn more about it.

The title of the book, this “Yahoo!” moment, is The Creative Trance, Altered States of Consciousness and the Creative Process by Tobi Zausner

My goal is to discuss the creative process in an intelligent way in regard to the creation of Shibui Found Image Art. Discussions about the creative process help define what we do and explain it better as we finesse this process. It allows us to have good dialog with others. Understanding what our personal process is important because our purpose, our intent as facilitators where we speak for others, evoke thoughts in others as they recreate what they see in our works. Where they bring to it their own experiences and beliefs: it is the words and actions which resolve into understanding the singular and the collective creative consciousness.

Best wishes! Pejj