OUTLINE AND UNDERLYING MEANING

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WARNING

The Creative Process is a dangerous journey that very few have mastered but many engage with on a daily basis. The process may contain discomfort, depression, confrontation of deep emotions, lowering of self-worth, and a variety of other symptoms depending on the creative. This is a visual representation of how I experience the creative process and should not be copied but used as a guide. Do not attempt the creative process unless you know what you are getting into.

Chapter 1: A lightbulb surrounded by darkness(Previous: “In the dark”)

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads” - Erica Jong

Shots of street lamps at night in the darkness. 

Symbolic of an idea starting from nothing in the darkness. 

The potential of a creative idea to bring some light to an otherwise very dark and cruel world. Bring joy and happiness into a world filled with pain, suffering, and sadness. 

Chapter 2: Incubation/Inspiration (Previous: “Incubation/Finding the light”)
“But who am I?”

This montage of pictures all throughout my life alludes to the self-reflection aspect of creating. Whether I know it or not each time I create I involve parts of my life I have experienced. Nothing is made in a vacuum. Everything I have experienced influences what I make. Also, I can look back on my life to get inspired.

The events I have experienced, the people I have been surrounded by, the places I’ve visited, and the things I’ve been taught have all led me to who I am today which affects what I create, how I create, and why I want to create.

The pictures show 21 years of my life. Of happiness, sorrow, pain, joy, triumph, and tribulations. People have gone and new people have joined. 

Chapter 3: Depression (The wall)

"It is a natural human impulse to make art imitates the people, places, and events around them" - Aristotle

Each creative journey eventually encounters a downward spiral. The difficult point for the artist is when things become tough. They start to think: why would I even want to do this in the first place? It's where many artists who are not experienced end up quitting. 
This is explained more carefully in the video linked below. Both a new artist and an experienced artist hit the wall, hitting the depression. The experienced artist knows that if more work is done the end of the journey and the completion of the project are in sight. 

Inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9tgr_XvOn8&ab_channel=VanNeistat 

Chapter 4: Realization/Awakening

This is when everything comes together. This is the point in the process where the artist knows how to finish the project. The end is near. The artist has finally awoken from a deep depression. 

The sunrises symbolize this awakening. This aspect is where the artist is starting to reveal their light unto the world. Starting with a small idea in a dark place the idea has grown and traveled and morphed from the past into the present and starts casting light. Similar to the sun rising day after day to unveil its light upon the earth. 

Chapter 5: Completion

While not a very complicated step like the others, finishing a piece for an artist is a very important chapter. Artists continuously change and create and sometimes never end up finishing a work. But if you never really finish a work did you really make it? Were you able to take the idea that once existed and bring it out into the world? No.

The feeling an artist gets when successfully finishing a project is unlikely any other. You had added something to the world that was not previously there before. All it took was a little idea in your head to make something real that wasn’t there before. 

(Previous: I was thinking about including a supercut of a lot of my favorite artwork however in the interest of time I did not. Also, I think that the motion graphics speak better.)