The Path of Least Resistance for Artists: The Structure and Spirit of the Creative Process
Robert Fritzamazon.com
The Path of Least Resistance for Artists: The Structure and Spirit of the Creative Process
“Many – perhaps all-natural systems obtain their organization and energy from the interaction of opposites,” writes Christopher Alexander in his classic book The Nature of Order.
There are three unique domains we will cover: the mechanics, the orientation, and the spirit of the creative process.
Neither approach can be productive. We need to have both elements, which means to narrow our attention on what we are creating, while, at the very same time, broaden our awareness to allow unimagined insight to surface.
This point is important for the artist to understand. The audience will fully engage if the universe you create has its own integrity, its own rules that are consistent within itself, independent of how the world really works. It also needs to be worth spending time with.
Another way of describing an artistic vision is that we create a unique universe in which the audience can live.
Some of the most creative people are both ambitious and lazy. “There’s got to be a better way,” often leads to new strategic steps in which radical ideas sometimes cause dramatic changes. Think Google and countless other internet services that challenged tradition. They can support your creative process. Isn’t it more convenient to Google some area
... See moreThe love artists have is generative, not responsive. Romantic love is responsive. You meet and then you fall in love. The situation first, the love second. But for the artist, the love predates the situation. The filmmaker loves the film before the film is made. The painter loves the painting before paint touches canvas. The choreographer loves the
... See morearts, rather than freeing the mind, we focus the mind. We set up a strategic tension-resolution system formed by the difference between a vision of the final piece we want to create, and where we are at any moment in the process.