Feelings And Creativity

 

 

“An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these powerful emotions into a creative force.” - Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

For some of the great painters, there was anywhere from a bit of madness to absolutely insane, but that does not mean that we all are blessed with such.  We are often inspired by strong emotions of some kind and we express those emotions through our artistic endeavors. Many of us are eccentric.   Most of us get lost in the process and for some, it is this escape from reality that we crave. 

When we are creating, I believe we move into unknown spaces and places of our soul.  Sometimes, we scratch t scabs in there.  Sometimes we are trying to extract strong emotions that we have not been able to express and thus apply healing through release.  Sem move into that place to create some kind of order to the chaos that simply living, today, surrounds u with.  Some merely seek the comfort found in that space.

Moving into that sacred space opens our heart an mind.  If we have not found a way to enter there, our focus is narrow and we are unable to give or receive that which is holy. 

Emotions need to be sat down with, have tea with, spend some time in the silent language of creating.  Think WITH them.  Allowing them, those emotions, an opportunity to express themselves, and they become a gift to us as we acknowledge and allow them the opportunity to have their say.  Yes, sometimes your artistic endeavor that rises from that space, is not always esthetically beautiful, but it is soulfully beautiful.  Emotions are an intelligence that we rarely take charge of and they are roiling and boiling beneath the surface of what we do, how we think, what we believe, and how we act on those things.  We are not powerless to our emotions.  We have always been in charge.  We have merely silenced a great deal of them and they are growling and weeping and evident in our lives whether we acknowledge them or not. Within the depth of our emotions, we find knowledge and as source of inspiration we may never have really tapped into without substrate before us an a brush in hand.  (Or anything we use to express ourselves.)  Without acknowledging our emotions, all of them, we lose our passions, we have to persist, dear artistic sisterfriends, persist, and enter into the most sacred space of all:  the space holding our un-expressed sacred emotions.

©Carol Desjarlais 5.24.23