Here we go again: I begin an adventure and I want to get all the things that I think I need to make it a reality as if those things, like the watercolours, the particular brands of pastels or colour pencils, or the model of the camera would magically create a wonderful piece of art.
I’m afraid I’m going to repeat the same patterns over and over.
I’ve always wondered about people who say they used to love to do a creative activity and suddenly they stopped. Maybe life happened or maybe they had a “burnout”. Many people talk about being discouraged by a professor or a bad critique. Art students talk about not knowing what to do after graduation when the need for a job is immediate.
Even with those logical explanations I never imagined putting my creative practice aside.
Only I did.
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