I can so relate with this. In fact, I’m in a similar place myself right now. Sometimes you just have to make something, anything to get back into the groove again. Thanks for sharing!
Whew do I know this struggle. It’s the getting to the making. I even know I’ll feel better when I do it. Even if I feel like I didn’t make anything great. And I say this laying on my couch 🙃
This is just what I needed to read/hear today. I was in a funk...I am tired and I just wanted one day to do absolutely nothing, but I have not done that. Yesterday, however, I did take my book to the pool for 30 min and basked in the sun after a workout in the pool. It felt so good to do that but today, I could not get away from the same feeling you had. I am painting today and I paint everyday but sometimes I just don't want to do a damn thing. I feel extremely guilty if I scroll the reels so I won't hang there for long...I get back in some sort of groove. OK, here I leave you now and get to work.
I can relate with a kind of sticky hell that lies at the intersection of a lot of material, economic and social deficiencies. To want to be able to have the smooth, sustainable energy of healthy/wealthy/lucky people in a society that is constantly ramping up oppression, scarcity and pain.
To crave what may never ever be possible to have, and to still attempt to do something anyway.
This is THE most relatabe piece I've ever read of yours (I think I'd "met" you online in 2014ish), so yeah. I've been in a creative slump since Nov. 2024 (and suffered a big creative slump during 2020/2021) because US politics really does affect me and my work.
Hi Indre, good to hear from you, and I’m glad this resonated with you. I can only imagine how US politics affects others outside. Those things weigh heavy on my mind a lot, but I’m glad the world hasn’t given up on us yet.
I LOVE these pieces! Despite a decade of working in various mediums, I had lost the joy in creating until I deleted my IG, decided to try sketchnoting for the first time to document my trip across Thailand and it got be back into that flow state we artists live for!
I didn't feel like punching my way back into creativity because I had put down my gloves until this sketchnoting miracle happened.
And now I am in the process of sharing that joy and resources for others to try it too! Part 1 was out last Monday which I would love to share with others here as creativity is so much more meaningful when it’s collaborative.
I can so relate with this. In fact, I’m in a similar place myself right now. Sometimes you just have to make something, anything to get back into the groove again. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Jen. Yeah, it’s definitely a one day st a time scenario right now, but I’m feeling better than I was.
Whew do I know this struggle. It’s the getting to the making. I even know I’ll feel better when I do it. Even if I feel like I didn’t make anything great. And I say this laying on my couch 🙃
The struggle is real, Rikki. ODAAT!
This is just what I needed to read/hear today. I was in a funk...I am tired and I just wanted one day to do absolutely nothing, but I have not done that. Yesterday, however, I did take my book to the pool for 30 min and basked in the sun after a workout in the pool. It felt so good to do that but today, I could not get away from the same feeling you had. I am painting today and I paint everyday but sometimes I just don't want to do a damn thing. I feel extremely guilty if I scroll the reels so I won't hang there for long...I get back in some sort of groove. OK, here I leave you now and get to work.
Do the work, Mom. 😉❤️
I can relate with a kind of sticky hell that lies at the intersection of a lot of material, economic and social deficiencies. To want to be able to have the smooth, sustainable energy of healthy/wealthy/lucky people in a society that is constantly ramping up oppression, scarcity and pain.
To crave what may never ever be possible to have, and to still attempt to do something anyway.
Well put. Thanks, Darius
This is THE most relatabe piece I've ever read of yours (I think I'd "met" you online in 2014ish), so yeah. I've been in a creative slump since Nov. 2024 (and suffered a big creative slump during 2020/2021) because US politics really does affect me and my work.
Hi Indre, good to hear from you, and I’m glad this resonated with you. I can only imagine how US politics affects others outside. Those things weigh heavy on my mind a lot, but I’m glad the world hasn’t given up on us yet.
I LOVE these pieces! Despite a decade of working in various mediums, I had lost the joy in creating until I deleted my IG, decided to try sketchnoting for the first time to document my trip across Thailand and it got be back into that flow state we artists live for!
I didn't feel like punching my way back into creativity because I had put down my gloves until this sketchnoting miracle happened.
And now I am in the process of sharing that joy and resources for others to try it too! Part 1 was out last Monday which I would love to share with others here as creativity is so much more meaningful when it’s collaborative.
https://open.substack.com/pub/urmilamenon/p/welcome-back-to-your-creativity-and?r=2hxtwc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
And part two comes out tomorrow for which it would be my honor to invite like-minded people like you all to join🌸🎀✨.
Thanks Dave for sharing your journey back to creativity, we need such stories to keep that fire going without burning ourselves in the process!
Thanks, Urmila, for fathering your Story too.
Loved your posts! Immediate sub✨👏🏽.