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CONVERSATION Starter
Stuck on a plateau. Evaluate your path to here and the opportunities you let pass. Inspect your practices. Are you held back by your own tendencies? Sometimes we won't step through a door of opportunity, listing instead all the problems in the way as an excuse. Sometimes we train like a hamster on a wheel, with no new view or input. What if you accepted an opportunity with the faith that you could resolve the problems, work it out, find a creative solution? What if you changed the view with a new approach, new class, new input, creating a new view? Discuss and evaluate possibilities.
Creative Experiment
Find a large cardboard box, flatten it, lay it on your studio floor. Alternatively leave it 3 dimensional, leave the top open. This is your plateau, the box you have created for yourself, the space within which you limit your artistry. Phase 1. Step onto/into it. Turn on the music and create all you can create without leaving the box. Phase 2. Create all you can create without letting go of the box. You can reach out, leave, but never let go. Phase three. Identify a step you want to take, a place you want to go outside of the box. Create a way to get there. Phase four. Discuss.
Escape and Inspiration
Art: 'Chosen Blindness' visit an art exhibit by Bestiary Collective, made up of bronze and clay sculptures, photo dioramas and sound art to showcase trauma and demise of non-human species, at Albuquerque Contemporary Art Center until Jan. 28th, 301 Mountain Road NE. Info at ac2gallery.org
Stage: 'The Dresser' a play about aspiration, Fri, Sat, Sun Jan 13 thru 29th at North Fourth Art Center, 4904 Fourth St. NW. Tickets at https://www.westendproductions.org/
Curiosity: Find out what the Bernalillo Arts Board does at a hybrid public meeting tonight Jan. 9th at 5pm. details https://abqtodo.com/event/arts-board/ For more information on the board https://www.bernco.gov/boards-commissions/arts-board/
Potential Choreography inspiration?: The Xeric Garden Club of Albuquerque is hosting a native bee specialist who will speak about "How many species will this plant support" Saturday, Jan 14th, 10-11:30https://abqtodo.com/event/how-many-species-will-this-plant-support/
Read or write. If you haven't time to journal, wake up and whip out a few lines of verse without laboring over it. Pick up a novel or autobiography from a second hand store, neighborhood library box, or the libray.
Ideas and inspiration come from everywhere. Stay open and observant!
