Creative Showing Up is a day for me to leave behind all assumptions of how I have to create and just start experimenting together with my creative blocks. I invite myself to show up on a weekly basis. It’s a creative session where I turn up despite my psychological tension and avoidance. I show up with it, carrying it in my tensed belly, uneven breathing, and sweaty palms. I take all these sensations and feelings into my hands and show up anyways. I also turn up when I feel energized, feeling ready to conquer the world. I don’t have to photograph a person in a certain way in a specific location that’s ‘normal’ to my practice. I don’t have to photograph a person. In fact, I don’t have to photograph at all. But I want to manifest something visible, readable, or audible. Some kind of physical manifestation is important to me to better understand my artistic path.
It doesn’t have to be good. I know this often stops me from making art at all - the idea of it having to be great. I want to create ‘great’ art, but that’s often not for me to decide, at least not while I’m in the process of creating. I know that the ‘greatness’ of my art can appear to me much later.
I invite myself to show up, to persist, to have a consistent creative practice, and document it here.
