Photograph. Look. Listen. Feel. THEN create.

I know I've been posting a lot of photographs, rather than paintings, drawings and sculpture works. This is generally because I've posted the works for the exhibition in Vanderbijlpark, Scrapes and Scapes, directly onto my website, and due to the current phase where I'm gathering inspiration through looking, taking photographs and just taking in my surroundings again, before jumping into creating new works again. This statement and questions by Andrea Brand sums this phase up very nicely:

"Life is a constant process of creation. The universe pulses with the energy of forming and creating anew all the time. Life offers us many opportunities to explore and discover something unique. We just have to observe nature around us.The human race creates all the time. The importance here is how we do it and what effect it has on our immediate surroundings. Are we creating in order to achieve a certain goal in mind already i.e. considering the end result? Or can we allow ourselves to move with the process, being there every step as it unfolds and emerges, being conscious, and being aware"

- Andrea Brand, What does it mean to be creative?, http://www.andreabrand.co.za/be-creative