Last month, I created an accountability challenge for myself. “Is there an easier way of being with my work?” I asked myself. I wrote the words on the wall calendar which covers most of my studio door, knowing that I’d easily forget it. Initially, it was fun (and even ease-y;) to work with ease, but fairly soon after I set the intention, I’d forget and then land back in the mud.
After a number of times experiencing ease/dis-ease, I realized, “o.k., so this intention is something that I need to come back to over and over, like repeating a mantra." My immediate thought after that was "oh god, another item to add to the to do list, this isn't going to work. I need to come up with something else." I threw that thought out to the universe where it collided with a question: "how can I make exploratory work and work that my collectors like?" Out of the collision, came a solution.
It turns out that if I cycle between the two or three different kinds of work in a studio day, I'm actually better able to problem solve in each area. It's like the rest of my life; I'm a hummingbird moving from one blossom to another. I get things completed, but not by sitting down and powering through. It's in the spaces between each activity that my brain is able to relax and solutions arise. Who knew that just being myself would yield these results?
