I'm currently working in a black and white theme, which I may have mentioned elsewhere. This is partly because I only had black and white paint around the flat for a long while, but also, it fits organically with my first ever (in)formal art course which is partly based upon the course at the Royal Academy, so my tutor Lisa insists upon a black and white focus through drawing and mixed media at present.
My art tutor impresses me both in her teaching style to the group, and in her unceasing ability to deal with my creative "mental" process, verbal interruptions (questions), and even a breakdown which happened a few weeks ago due to the current psychic crisis I am undergoing as I attempt to bridge my inner world of untrained spontaneous creativity with the outer world of trained art expression.
I like Lisa tremendously, and even though I am of course the worst art student on the course, she is constantly positive and supportive of my vainglorious efforts to try and channel ten years of manic expression into a more recognisable, considered, form of artistic expression. I am seeking a balance between my unconscious creative spontaneity, but expressed through more rigorous art skills and practices.
It is as though having reached my peak in terms of the Sociology of art, and the Psychology of creativity, I then experienced this intellectual knowledge as applied experiential creativity through employment, and socially by living in a community of art squatters. It seems I am now attemting to absorb practical art skills, and the applied knowledge of art as business to complete my self-styled creative education.
It is as though I am unconsciously trying to round myself off as complete. In a strange way it feels like I am going through the world of art in reverse, but also as though I am going forward into a world of both art and creativity from an unpredictable multi-dimensional direction.
Art Flat
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