[Nfb-krafters-korner] OT dreams

[River Woman]

That is ok, you will make things when the time is right for you. Don't worry 
about that - you will. I always say the Art profession is the only one I 
ever knew that nobody ever retires from - not even sickness or disabilities 
deter the artist from making work. DeKooning was painting during his years 
with Altzheimers;  Frieda Kahlo painted while flat on her back in bed, and 
with debilitation pain and paralysis, and on and on...we never quit.

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 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] OT dreams


> 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
>>
>
>
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