Jennifer Louden is known as “The Comfort Queen” and featured on many globally recognised TV shows, including Oprah, with over 800,000 copies of her first book sold internationally. She is the world's leading authority on carving out the time and desire to look after your own well being and hence achieve more with less stress despite having a very busy life.
How do we decide what to create? Out of the vastness of our imaginations, how do we land on what we articulate, bring into form, life, shape?I've never had to ask this question about my writing--I somehow instinctively learned early on to recognize what ideas had enough in them. I somehow knew how to sneak up on, lie down next to, rub up against an image or concept or feeling until I was sure I wanted to mate with it for the months and years it would take to create something worth my time.
I've yet to find my way to that sneaking up, lying down next to, rubbing up against phase with the art making. I know how I want to feel when I'm creating--excuse me for being a bit graphic but I feel it in my uterus when an image works. It connects with my seat of creativity literally. It's not a sexual feeling but it's certainly a life giving, life-lighting up feeling.
I associate that feeling with real art. I believe that honesty is created and communicated through the intent and even the touch of the artist: the intent to bring something new and real into being, not just rearrange what has already been, not simply be clever. It happens in words too, of course it does, in all mediums.