For me, creative artistry is the ability to express one's self freely, share one's deepest emotions or thoughts and inspire others with a specific message in mind. Artistry could be in different forms like painting, writing, poetry, acting, dancing, etc. It can be any form of expression that one can translate into something tangible, something soulful, raw and thought provoking. Creative artistry can be anything that brings you into the zone, where you lose yourself in the moment, only to find yourself after its creation, or completion.
If I was asked where I get my ideas or how do I get inspired, I would probably be caught off guard and have to think of my answers, because in reality, there's an abundance of inspiration around me. I am literally in spirit, inspired both externally, where I pull out from my beliefs, perception or personal life experiences, and internally where I get to close my eyes and focus on my consciousness, listen to my emotions and not my thoughts, where I listen to what my soul or to what Spirit is telling me.
Below are the main triggers of inspiration that I get to pull from when I am either writing poems, articles or painting an artwork:
NATURE inspires me to create art, especially when I see the changes of the season. When I witness the abundance of beauty and color in nature, the ebb and flow of the ocean, the constant movement or the stillness of the clouds, the haunting setting of the sun and its hopeful rising at dawn, I get truly inspired to paint, create and translate my own version of what I perceive and experience.
ANIMALS - I get inspired when I see animals both alive, in pictures or in videos that showcases their natural instincts and strengths while they connect with other creatures, including humans. I am drawn to the spiritual characteristics, messages and wisdom that these animals bring to us, humans.
MOVIES and BOOKS inspire me when it transports me into their world. When I get engaged enough to separate myself from me, and connect to whatever it is that I am experiencing. When it allows me to bridge the gap about reality vs non-reality, where I can see if it is something I can bring into my real world, or if it just an exciting virtual experience that is about to be over soon. Either way, I appreciate both, but taking something out of it and bringing lessons and wisdom into my reality is something I'm more inclined towards to. In fact, I have noticed a huge shift in my personal interests and tastes when it comes to movies and books, it evolves along with my own maturity.
PHOTOGRAPHS and ARTWORK The creative work of another artist can be truly inspiring as it allows me to see different kinds of techniques and allows for thought provoking questions to flow in me. Trying to read between the lines or understanding the depicted artwork can be very intriguing. Do I always get the answers right? Who knows? But art is open to interpretation anyway, it's either you like it or not, you resonate or not, you are drawn by it or you look away. My attention is captured when I take a few minutes to really look into an art, either admire, study the technique or question its content. And as an artist, it is both an honor and quite rewarding when someone takes the time not only to see my art, but to appreciate the process of its creation and resonates with its meaning or intention.
NEWS is my least favorite avenue of gathering inspiration because in reality, news often showcases the negative side of life. It rarely focuses on the good of humanity but capitalizes on fear, anger, confusion and chaos. I only pull inspiration from the news when it is highly relevant and I feel inspired to uplift people and remind them of the good and the positive, otherwise, I avoid it like a plague. I don't even listen or watch the news as it brings so much negativity in our energies, and if we are not careful, it is so easy to absorb the negativities and drain our own energies that we may end up leaving in fear, anger or paranoia.
RELATIONSHIPS between lovers, family, friends, acquaintances are all inspiring to me. Though I gravitate more towards relationships with deeper attached emotions, watching people around and witnessing their relationships is quite eye opening as well. I get inspired not only from my own personal relationships but from others that I have witnessed or come across with. Relationships inspire me to create not just paintings and drawings, but it squeezes the creative juices in me as I use words to convey messages through beautiful poems and insightful articles.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES that are both joyous, proud moments or traumatic ones are all of huge impact on me. This is where I normally get inspired to share wisdom learned from my struggles or painful experiences. When I feel nostalgic about certain people, places and experiences, I either romance the feeling back over and over again, or I remind myself of the lessons that I gained, why certain people are no longer in my life, or why I am no longer in that place. Personal experiences are huge inspiration for me as they allow me to bravely look back at the past and question my actions, motives, etc. It allows me heal myself if I happen to have current pain, resentment or bitterness that I may be in denial with. It reminds me of how far I have become, of how much stronger, braver and wiser I am because of a certain experience. I have learned to look at experiences as blessings in disguises because the truth is, we would not expand and evolve to the person that we are today had we not experienced pain in our past. And just like with relationships, I use personal experiences as a natural inspiration in creating both paintings, articles and poems.
DREAMS are inspiring for me especially if I wake up vividly remembering not only the dream but the emotions attached to it. For this reason, I journal my dreams. I have been doing this since 2016 and I often pull out some visions from my dreams and translate them into painted art work. Do I know what my dreams mean? Not always. For some, I instinctively know what it means, for others, it has been precognitive where after a few months it would happen into my reality, but for others, they are just images and experiences that are captured in my journal - with no clear meanings or attachments to it. Still, I pull out specific themes when I am inclined to create paintings out of it, or when I get truly inspired, I can make poems of it, too.
CLAIRVOYANCE are the images that come to me in my conscious state. Sometimes, when my eyes are closed, whether I am in meditation or not, I see pictures in my mind's eye. Sometimes they look like movie trailers in black and white, and sometimes its a colored abstract picture that slowly transforms into an image and disappears in a few seconds. When the image is clear enough, I try to capture this through my art. Often, I journal this as well, describing the images the best way I can remember. But mostly, it is hard to capture and even describe the experience into words. I have learned to accept that not all visions can be translated into art form. But I must say, savoring the experience is always worth it.
MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES are amazing personal and sacred blessings that I experience both in my reality and in my dreams. These are the mind-boggling experiences that keeps me scratching my head, wondering how in the world things could have happened. It can leave me wondering if what had happened was a dream or reality. Mystical experiences sometimes makes me question my own sanity. It leaves me questioning the why, the who and the how, knowing that I may never get a direct answer, yet trusting that it was divine intervention popping into my life. I have had quite a few since I was much younger, and most of these mystical experiences I have translated into poetry, and some into paintings. Immortalizing these mystical experiences is both blissful and sacred, and I feel completely honored to relive the experience through my art.
SPIRIT downloading information through me is something I believe I get when I write my poems. There are times when I know exactly what to write especially if I have personally experienced it but when the poem is of spiritual nature, like Veil of Forgetfulness, Past Lives, Ode to my Karmic Partner, etc. I feel like I cannot take full credit for those "original" poems. Though I written on my own, when I read the completed poem, I feel like the message was not entirely mine. I do get goosebumps and realize that there's no way I could have written those poems on my own, they were Spirit inspired, if not channeled.
Though painting has been a childhood passion of mine, writing poems is something I have just discovered during the Covid lockdown in 2020. When I was much younger, I was never interested in reading poetry, let alone write one. So, writing poems is such a delightful surprise that I just learned to accept and embrace. It took me a while to really believe in myself and my newly found gift in writing.
My creative artistry can be called something different by others who create and share their own special and unique gifts that brings joy and inspiration to others. And truly, that's what it is all about! When we continue to pick each other's minds, inspire and uplift one another and motivate each other to be better versions of ourselves, and when we bravely share our gifts, time and energies amongst each other to the betterment of all, we are interconnecting with each other, and this is how we give back to the world.
Many thanks to my subscribers, friends and family who support my creative artistry. But mostly grateful for the abundant inspiration that life continues to offer. 💖✨
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