Today is
Wishcasting Wednesday, over on
Jamie Ridley's blog.
We could all use the power of good wishes in our life. Not only for our art and our creative leanings, but for our families, our friends and our life. Does us, as people, wishing all together *really* make them come true? I don't know. Does the power of positive thinking -- which is really what wishing is --really work? I think it does.
And anyway, it certainly doesn't hurt anything.
Today's Wishcasting prompt is....
What do you wish for your creativity?Wow. I have actually been thinking about this a lot recently. Especially as I find out just how unfocused and scattered I can be in general, not to mention in my creative life.
I wish.......that I had more ability to focus, REALLY focus, on my creative work....spend the time, the mental, emotional, and metaphysical energy, and the physical effort on all the things that swirl around in my brain all day and all night long. I feel like I get distracted, and bored, and wander around creatively too much.
I wish.....that I could feel as though I have
found my voice in my art-making, whatever the medium. I know that whatever art that comes from me *
is* me, but I don't feel like my
message is carrying through the work.
I wish...... that the work I make in my head would transfer to the physical world more easily. What I see in my mind's eye is so very often not what ends up on the page, or in the kiln, or on my worktable.
I wish.....that I could learn to work more efficiently and effectively in the small chunks of time I DO have for creative work. It is so rare that I can spend hours immersed in art-making of any kind, and I really wish that I could accept my current creating parameters, and feel accomplished and satisfied with what I can do in the time I have.
Four wishes is already probably a lot, especially if I were to find a genie in a bottle, but one more wish I would make is this:
I wish that I could find a way to make my creativity my livelihood. Truly. More so than just making my art self-supporting, more than just being able to buy my silver wire and glass and paint and paper and fabrics,
I wish that I could turn my creativity into my career.
I wish I could figure out exactly what the heck that means.What do YOU wish for?
