After becoming aware of my creative ebb and flow that seems to come as naturally to me as it does to bodies of water, I have been kinder to myself in times of waning creative productivity. But even during those times, I keep my eyes peeled. Sometimes the inspiration I’ve needed all along is right in front of me, but it’s not completely obvious until it slaps me in the face.

Lately, it feels like I have no creative outlet at all. I haven’t taken any pictures, written anything interesting or worth sharing, and I really haven’t drawn or designed anything either. For a person whose mental I.V. is the creation of Art, needless to say it’s been quite difficult. I used to think that I stopped creating when I was happy or really socially busy, but since I am neither lately, it looks like the creative block does not discriminate. And at this point, I’m exhausted. I feel like an empty ghost that floats around and consumes consumes consumes.

So I looked to history. Historically speaking, I usually make Art related to what consumes me. What am I focused on at the moment? How can communicate my fixation to others in order to share human commonality? In order to express something that is deeply internal.

Then it clicked. Lately, I have been fixated on the concept of Corporate Work Culture, email niceties, hierarchies, everyday human communication, cancer, and death. It’s now a matter of turning those fixations into relatable conceptual expressions, communicating whatever I may be feeling about each concept.

If anything, it’s a start. Looking at the world and your experiences from a perspective of potential can change the way you perceive challenges in life. If you look at your debilitating health problems and see nothing but that, the future will seem grim. But when you see the potential for Art in your struggles, that’s when, despite the challenge itself, the future suddenly fills with hope and excitement. Whenever I only see a lack of Art in my future, I start to lose hope.

Please stay tuned for the mind dump that will result from this newfound inspiration.