Inspiration Reaction

Organizing one’s creative thoughts can be a difficult task, seeing how spontaneity is the nature of the creative mind. At this early stage in artist’s career, one can feel governed by the unpredictable emergence of progressive thoughts towards an idea. It can be burdensome as an artist to be struck with an idea at an inconvenient time, or to find a lack of stimulation at a critical time. “Artist’s block” may be caused by many mental or physical events, yet is never invited and can lead to both lucrative and psychological distress.
Sourcing Inspiration is an insightful look into the into the aesthetic mind. It investigates how ideas become implanted into the psyche and evolve into mature concepts. The article is helpful because it explains different ways that inspiration can be accepted. For instance, external stimuli can manifest an idea for one, while another artist creates off of their own internal workings. This does not exclude the idea of using an internal inspirational source mixed with tangible references for representational purposes.
Personally, this was helpful or me as a student who struggles with formation of clear ideas about my identity as an artist and the work itself. I can relate to certain parts of the article that speak of internal artistic impulses and using the human experience itself as inspiration. It is encouraging to read that one does not need to have brash statements about politics or other cliché things to be taken seriously in the art world.