Your Creative Process

The subconscious plays a great part in art, that is to say that in conceiving & realizing a work a great deal happens which cannot be logically explained–the mind jumps from one stage to another much further on without there being traceable steps shown between – sudden solutions which cannot be followed step by step–in a word–inspiration. —Henry Moore I recently joined fellow photographer David Ulrich for a panel discussion on the topic of the creative process, offered to members of The Nook Community. Opening the conversation, host Adriana Cerundolo asked David and me this question: “what does the creative process mean to you?” I emphasized the words “to you” since they make Adriana’s question both poignant and scientifically correct. Despite so many attempts to formalize and study the creative process, it turns out that the process of making creative work is, at least in some of its aspects, personal. As psychologist and creativity researcher Dean Keith Simonton put it in an article…