Creative Chaos

Creative Chaos: Creative chaos is no stranger to any of us. Worry, stress, anxiety, and a whole host of other robbers of our peace and contentment, are constantly running in the background. Our minds may jump from one to the other. There’s an old saying; “If you remove one demon from your mind, seven more will move in.” This is how it goes virtually day in day out. Is there a perfect day entirely free of mindful chaos? Most likely, if you’re lucky, you have many of them. But chaos does appear in even the most sainted.

When did creative chaos thrust itself upon man? Theologians may suggest it happened around the time someone took a bite out of an apple, in a garden long, long ago. We may never know for sure when creative chaos started, but there’s one thing absolutely sure, creative chaos is alive and well and beseeches us all. Just ask anyone, “You went into your studio and you were only there for a few minutes?” In this situation the typical response is. “I don’t know, I had good intentions, but now my mind is filled with anxiety brought on by worrying about all kinds of stuff.” Luckily most of us start out our creative day with good intentions and a happy spirit, and the results of our labor turns out to be beautifully wonderful.

Creative people, and without doubt, virtually everyone is individually creative, and possesses qualities that can be defined as imaginative. Rarely if ever, know…