*An Artist's Brain*
March 07 2008 / by Peltaire
Category: Other Year: 2008 Rating: 3
Musician, Painter and Jewelry maker Jimbob Peltaire creates
creating and reveals a new take on being an artist.
Image Below is a belt buckle created by Jimbob Peltaire
In the past, I would usually wake up at 6:45 AM. I would shower, and then I would consciously prepare myself for the day. For most people, including myself at the time, the day included a list of tasks to complete and a number of conversations to manage which then would cycle into a new list of tasks and conversations for the next day. These items could all be considered doings that must be done inside of the day in order to get to the next day. This used to be my life. Then I realized I could alter my context for all of it. And that is what I did.
I’ve since created a new context for preparing myself for the day and in place of preparing, I have now put in place creating the day. If I am creating the day, then I am at the source of it, rather than being at the effect of it, as if the day is something to avoid or be cautious of, to operate with as if it is separate from myself. Either context, I am still at the source. In other words, I am the day. The day doesn’t happen to me, I happen to it.
I have recently applied this thinking to creating art. I don’t DO art. I create it. Indeed, there is a doing, a mechanical aspect to everything I do, however, before I do anything, I always establish a way of being first that gives me how I do whatever it is that I do. For example, if I create being inspired and happy, these are ways of being that will have me do things in a specific way which will cause specific results, perhaps unpredictable results. Did he say create being inspired? Yes, I said create being inspired. I assert that for many artists, being inspired is something that lives out there, just like the day, as if it is something that happens to us, something we must wait or prepare for. For me, I am at the source of it all, it is a choice to be inspired. This gives me a place to stand in creating. To be clear, Being is a form of creating for me. It is the primary form of creating. Oddly enough, the secondary form is creating, like doing. If creating is secondary to itself, then the process of creating for me could actually be considered creating creating. Amazing! This is seemingly paradoxical, which for me is the best place to be in creating creating art, jewelry and music.
