[Nfb-krafters-korner] OT dreams

[Deidre Muccio]

Linda
I whole heartedly agree with you. I was questioning my own designation. I
guess that I do consider myself an artist at heart, I am, it's just I have
not produced much!

Deidre

Linda wrote:

There is no such thing as a "former artist." I have in no way lost any of my
artistic creativity - it is just as urgent as it has always been my entire
life. Art is not an occupation that anyone ever retires from, or can quit
due to physical challenges.
We just continue on, changing as we go, and it is all part of the path we
have always been on since before birth. I am absolutely sure that art is
inherent, and nothing that can be learned - we can learn techniques, but the
ART spirit is there first, and we never lose it.

Lynda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deidre Muccio" <deimucc at verizon.net>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] OT dreams


> Linda
> The process you are describing is called "latent learning" I think. As a
> former artist of sorts, fiction writing, visual, whatever, the more
> something is on your mind, much is percolating beneath the surface. It's 
> not
> unusual to solve problems the way you describe. That doesn't make it any
> less interesting or fun however!
>
> Deidre
>
> OMG, Joyce, you are a BIG DREAMER - who are you kidding?  I mean, let's 
> just
> expand the idea of what a dream is - you are a wide awake, walking, 
> living
> dreamer.
>
> I dream constantly - all I have to do is close my eyes, and in moments I 
> am
> off to places and situations. My dreams are always full of DRAMA...never 
> the
> kind of dreams that you want to close your eyes and go back to sleep and 
> try
> to resurrect.
>
> But, have any of you every been wrestling with a craft or art problem you
> could not solve? And, then, in a dream, you see yourself doing it and you
> wake up knowing exactly how to do something you never did before? I sure
> have.  I have figured out knitting problems in m sleep, and I even learned
> math concepts that I had a hard time with, in my dream. (I learned how to 
> do
> "slope" in algebra that way, when my conscious mind could not "get it."
> I dream for ideas - sometimes I wake up and write down things I am seeing 
> in
> my dreams - poems come that way to me at times.
>
> I think we have such a creative mind, all of us, that dreams are a
> continuation of our creative self.
>
> Lynda
>