Creativity Is At The Heart Of Humanity.
I find myself at a point in life where I can start to question myself and do something to either improve or repair things.
Too often I find that I have become immersed in the modern world, in such a way that I have forgotten that I have a life to live within it. I find that it is all too easy to find myself working all day, only to return home and waste time watching TV or cruising the internet, waiting for the day to end and the next day of work to begin.
This is not to say that TV or the Internet are necessarily bad things, there is a lot of genuinely interesting or entertaining things on both media. Indeed I wouldn’t be writing here if I found nothing of worth in the internet. But it can be very seductive and easily draw you in so that you spend more time trying to find diversions rather than finding what it was you were needing.
It is to this point I have decided to redress my life and start breath new life into a flagging mind.
I studied Ceramic Art at university, stopping off at Photography, Illustration, Painting and other various visual art forms along the way. Additionally, I have been a musician for around 15 years now. Until recently I have found that I have not been either properly exploring my creativity in these areas, or been doing anything at all in some instances.
I therefore have recently made a decision to curtail the amount of time I’m spending on the internet and ceasing to watch TV. When I ‘decide’ to turn on the computer and go on the internet, I will think about what it is I want to do, rather than turning it on in the hope of finding something to do. Whilst I enjoy numerous TV programs, I do not feel that I will be missing much by cutting it out.
This, I hope, will help me in two ways. Firstly it will afford me the time to pursue other activities. Secondly, it will force me to ‘think’ about how I’m to spend my free time.
Directly I have set myself two major projects which should aid me in this also. I have two bands on the go, one of which has just started gigging and the other is close to gigging. I need to write new material for both and practice the material we already have. I also need to build a new artistic portfolio!
This last has brought me no small amount of excitement and pain. I am arrogant enough to believe I am not only good at what I have learnt to do over the years, but actually, I am talented, interesting and marketable in my area. Ceramics is currently not achievable due to equipment and space issues, but my illustration is certainly a rich area into which I can pour a great deal of my creativity, without having to pour in a great deal of my pay-slip.
So I come to the crux of this blog. What am I to blog about? What do I have to say that is worth saying and how should I use this facility to my personal befit and to hopefully carry a few others along with me? Well, I believe that the general, overarching, but in no ways dictatory, mandate for my posts should be CREATIVITY.
Creativity, or the enhancement of such, is my personal goal. To shake off the shackles of the modern world which I have placed upon my own life. To start off by finding time and inspiration for creativity and to, in the long term, start to make money from who I am, rather than what my employer would like me to be.
The journey has already begun, but now that I’ve stopped of to top up the tank, I’m hitting the road and setting my sights on the horizon. I hope to see you there!
anthonyudall 