Hi. I just realized that the posts I thought were new items here ended up as comments on my first post. Well, live and learn. I’m going to republish them now as separate posts. Thanks. David.
Inspiration engages creative process.. what is the precursor to inspiration.. how does one cultivate inspiration through an enhanced awareness of visual and sensual stimuli. When this process becomes conscious one begins to see the world in a different context. This personal interrelation of sight sound and the individuals unique response and adaptation to this very stimuli is what sets the ground for creative process, although not through direct correlation.
Becoming consciously aware of the way in which we interpret our reality around us is the basic starting point one needs to cultivate in order to set the foundation for developing creative links, that will serve as common ground where imagination and intuition are the substrate. These two intangible concepts need to be accessible in order for one to carry out creative endeavors.
Setting up a certain patterning as to be able to repeat the onset of creative process is what is at the heart of this attempt to pull together and lay down a direction and path which unfolds before the initiator a viable road map which can set into action the mystical and somewhat elusive process of creativity in any format/media.
By format I am referring to painting, photography, creative writing, music, sculpting etc.etc.
There are subtle cues that one needs to become aware of in order to put the creative process into a dynamic mode. There are visual cues such as light quality, color, form, texture etc. There is also auditory stimuli that one need to take into consideration, which affect our moods, temperment and perceptions. Tactile qualities are also part of our immediate environment and these too give rise to emotion and affect the feedback loop that we as individuals create due to our conditioning from the time that we come into this reality.
The many facets and myriad combinations of all this stimuli affects us all differently to some extent but on the other hand we all share a common reality which conditions us in a more or less typical fashion. It is the regularity and banality that we as creative beings must find a way to use and at the same time supercede in order to contact our inherent imaginative capabilities.
Learning to consciously recognize particular qualities of light and the affects that light has on form is a major component in the attempt to form a particular type of alliance with imagination and intuition. One needs to recognize the nuances of light and its affect on the psyche in order to start the internal dialogue needed to inspire the onset of creativity. One must explore form and its affect on the viewer in terms of differentiation in relation to light and its qualities, direction, intensity, color characteristics, and the ever changing nature of light itself in the course of a day. Light is a energetic that is in constant flux and it by understanding the transience of light we can focus ourselves to become more conscious of its compelling nature. Also the mood that light creates when interacting with form is a major criteria of the perception which we are affected by during the course of our day.
Professional fine art photographer David Hoptman teaches two online and interactive courses at The Compelling Image-The Abstract Image and Mixed-Media Photography.
