The Creative Process

I was reading this article in an art magazine and I found this paragraph that I loved.

Sean Kernan was talking about processes artists use and said that "we give ourselves so deeply to the act of perception that we take what we see right into ourselves, and then give forth a version of it from inside, tinted by all of the possibilities within us, transforming the way an oyster takes grit and makes a pearl. Understand that this is a lot more than catching something we see on film. It makes a new thing. And it is this mysterious event that lifts one photo out of the piles and piles that we've made, up into the realm of art. And that photo we've made, charged with our resonances and possibilities, is what others get to see. But the biggest result is not the picture, it is that after making it, the patterning inside us is different than it was before: we are expanded by the event."

This is how I feel sometimes about art and some moments just the way the paint comes out on the canvas can inspire me. It's a fun idea when you see beauty in some normal uncelebrated moment and then translate it into a visual or writing or whatever and give it back to the world.