Inviting Music Space: The Heart Cave

This is the heart cave. Below shows within the heart cave, facing out. Here, too — in Config. 2 is the heart cave, in a different configuration to support music recording with a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Note that the tools for a creation session are at hand. Microphone Headphones Mood lighting Incense DAW access […]

Our Environments Make A Difference For Creativity

Our environments matter in terms of their creativity-affording potential. I am currently organizing sticky notes. I have time and space and materials to create. I am in solitude and I have a multi-sensory environment with “levels” of engagement. What do I mean by levels? I mean that I can engage with ideas on: (1) a […]

1B: Dragon and Dove

This drawing was inspired by a photo (1A), and it led to a little story (1C).

1A: I’m Going To Turn This Into Something Else

I don’t yet know what it will be. Hmm…1B

What Fear Looks Like

In my last post I talked about how the patterns we observe can be part of our creative practice. What if our fears are the same thing? What if we share our fears? Are those creative, too? Is fear a misuse of imagination? Maybe. I don’t like centipedes. One time I went to drink out […]

Adaptation and Expression

What if sharing the patterns we see *is* our creative expression? Hi, I’m JD Faulk. We each possess a day-to-day creativity that goes largely unrecognized within ourselves. We see shapes in the clouds and finish each others sentences. We make meals from leftovers. We are pattern-seekers and we fill in the unknown with our “what-if?” […]

Perfectionism or The Process

I’m a creative person, but I don’t have a whole lot of finished work to show for it. At least, I don’t have much in comparison to what I dream up. Maybe you can relate. So what’s holding me back? Recently, I put a name to it: I’m a perfectionist. Even before I begin to […]

Guard The Space

“To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed… separate from everyday concerns.” ~ John Cleese The idea of “getting out of the way of yourself” crops up often when artists describe their creative process. There are many ways of doing this. Hemingway said “Write drunk, edit sober” as […]

Introduction: Play/Wonder

Hi, I’m JD Faulk. I believe that we have a day-to-day creativity that goes largely unrecognized within ourselves. We see shapes in the clouds and finish each others sentences. We make meals from leftovers. We are pattern-seekers and we fill in the unknown with our “what-if?” minds. I see creative expression and adaptation as essentially […]