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Thinking about the creative process.

We say that our creative ideas come to us, and that seems the best explanation of what it feels like. That our ideas come from within and around us. The sense involves a compulsive state, a must do frame of mind. And there you are with a great need to express something about what you feel, think or see. Sometimes, falling upon symbolism because at times it seems to define what you want in a better way. A chosen medium leads to the foundational work in that it determines the start of the expression laced into the work. Creativity has begun its magic. The mind touches upon all senses to feel one’s way forward. How to achieve whatever it is the upper most thought. It feels like the essence of love to be creative, after all it is a passion.

Alot of creativity has to do with how we see as well as think. It begins with light. Light is a requirement to express all things. There would be no shape to the world without light. There would be no color for the eye to digest and determine the right hue.

Creativity is about composition. The best paintings hold fast to what works. The best sculptures tease the eyes. The best black and white photos are where the photographer understand what he sees. A good photographer looks for both light and darkness. It’s about values of color. The possibility of hues and tones found. Artist marvel at color. It’s a skill to use it.

The written word____.

Writing is like painting but with the written word. An idea comes to mind. The writer things about what he or she knows about the topic that has come to him or her. The questions begin about what can be said, the thought may be “Do I know enough? And what is it I know? Should I learn more about this? Research and generate more ideas? “What do I feel about this? What do others feel about such things? What are the commonalities we all have that will allow someone to identify with what I am expressing. Like an artist painting a picture, the writer wants to draw the reader in as the artist does the viewer of a painting. Keeping interest is important. How we say it, the tone of voice and mindset we draw the customer into sets precedence. The motional pull tugs, traps are set to guide the reader there to that particular place of residence or perhaps its radiance. Locked into the story is radiance, it’s where you cannot put the book down.

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Poetry is dear to my heart.

I particularly love writing poetry! When I write it certainly does feel like things come to me, I pull these thoughts from within. They depend on experiences held fast in the filing cabinets of brain and body. There needs to be a truest reality of what something is. The feelings must resonate and simply facilitate genuineness. Words trigger thought, so that people can bring themselves to the table. “That is how I feel!” The writer is a mix of things, wearing many hats. The need to understand what it is to be human means tapping into the psychology of others. “What makes people tic?” The motional self is laid open.

Shibui is an art form that tells you what it wants.

Shibui begins with action art, and then becomes found image art. It is a problem-solving art. The Shibuiest must allow the foundation to speak to them. And so Shibui has its own order of operations. It is unlike traditional art although it requires imagination. It is like looking at the clouds and finding what’s there, or perhaps it is a stain. It has no predawn understructure. “Boom! It’s there!” All that one may do to create the action art part of a Shibui. What you have is shapes that become forms. And you do intentional work. If when looking at the clouds and find something in them; to make the found image whole, you would need to add something more. And so, it is with Shibui. You transform the shapes that become forms into what your imagination finds there. You never know what you will get from one Shibui to another! The can mimic tradition artwork. They turn out as abstracts, or as landscapes, seascapes or they can be contrived and build upon intentionally as monoprints or printmaking images. It all depends upon the shapes and forms in the foundation.

There is a lot more to Shibui. I began developing it in 2011. I am always learning something new. But when I compared its process to that of traditional art I found many of the same techniques applied where some did not. One day my manual will be done so that others can have these same ins and out of Shibui Found Image Art as I do.

The very best wishes to all of you! May you have a great day!

Pejj Nunes 5/7/2026