{"id":734,"date":"2012-05-14T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2012-05-14T08:28:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:28:49","slug":"on-creating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"On Creating&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The essence of creativity is inspiration. To be inspired by something means you give your entire being over to the sentient processes there before you, and a calling to a higher ideal transforms through thought into action &#8211; if action is taken. Inspiration drives the creative to do many things, most of which will never see the light of day &#8212; but all combine to create a unified existence of purpose within an artist. The projects or ideas that do surface gracefully, with no struggle \u00a0&#8211; into the field of activity, and reveal themselves to be charged with life and inspired &#8211; are the works we see in museums, portfolios and galleries. It is within the days of creating things out of habit and a foresight to future positive outcome will push better work forward. It is not in thinking that this occurs, rather in the doing and observation of craft.<\/p>\n<p>I create art to feel the process of evolution. It expands my thought processes to include aspects of the ethereal and brings forth a joining of inner clarity and social outward awareness. I am too aware of this, and so I find myself addicted to finding this state of Nirvana through creating either paintings, drawings or music. In this field of activity I am more at home and enjoy life much deeper, than if I did not correlate the two worlds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_5835.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[734]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-735\" title=\"IMG_5835\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_5835-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_5835-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_5835-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_5835.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;Darwin&#8217; by Gavin Spielman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The essence of creativity is inspiration. To be inspired by something means you give your entire being over to the sentient processes there before you, and a calling to a higher ideal transforms through thought into action &#8211; if action is taken. Inspiration drives the creative to do many things, most of which will never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}