Anisette Studio

From Muddy Brook Studio   1/11/2024

I don’t seem to read far into the book, The Creative Trance before I am delighted by new thoughts about the creative process. I give you what I have read.

“One of the most widespread aspects of the creative trance is also one of the most disparaged, and that is daydreaming. To an outside observer, the daydreamer may appear to accomplish nothing, but with certain individuals, these reveries can change the world. Einstein’s visualizations were pivotal to his work in physics. Yet when he was a boy, Einstein’s teacher told his parents that he was constantly “adrift” in his daydreams and mentally slow (Goertzel & Goeertzel, 1962 pg248). Thomas Alva Edison’s (1847-1931) teacher called him” addled” and expelled him from school for daydreaming (Mould, 2016, pg 500),” Tobi Zausner continues on.

I cannot help but think of individuals who are known savants. I met a little boy who played music so beautifully once. He was a savant; my husband was to do his portrait as a print. Both Thomas and I are printmakers.

I like the clarity of how Tobi Zausner explains what a trance is. I never thought of the trance as being part of the creative process until now!

Zausner continues, “The creative trance is not only diverse, occurring in individuals of all backgrounds, but is also inclusive with people of many different abilities experiencing altered states. Both disabilities and ill ness have the capacity to positively influence a creative trance. Different abilities may shape and augment the creative process, because they extend its parameters with the Paralympics, wheelchair dancing, inclusive theatre, and dance companies. As the world champion wheelchair dancer Piotr Iwanicki says, “When I’m on the dancefloor, nothing matters at all. Dance is all my life, it’s my passion” For some people, illness can reshape a creative trance and become the turning point to a new life and experience of post-traumatic growth. I call this transforming illness. (Zausner,2016).” I found this to be inspiring! One of my goals regarding Shibui is to learn how it works as an art therapy. How does art therapy help the mind to work? What messages from the mind help heal individuals? Art and the creative process, and now trance as a part of the process. Now an answer, a word that describes what it is like to go into “the zone!” A word defined that will help me talk about the process of creating Shibui Found Image Art.

I love it when my Shibui sells and finds a new home. I miss them when they do.

This is an earlier version before it was done. You can see the texture in the foundation, this shape was the inspiration for the bird.

Best wishes! Pejj