Some Thoughts about Creativity
I recently had the joy of being with artists from around the world at an (online) artists’ liberation workshop led by Emily Feinstein.
Emily said that some of us were told that we should be doing something “more important” than having fun, playing, guessing, or experimenting. She asked if we had an early memory of being taught that other things were more important.
I thought about how my Protestant parents had tried to be “good” and how it had been important how we looked to others. I had also been rewarded for doing household chores, doing them well, and completing them. I’d never been told outwardly that I would have to put aside my creativity, but my imagination had been dismissed and my ideas often questioned by my parents and other adults.
Australia
(Present Time 206, January 2022)