Creative Director: Ease

I Create: Creative Director of My Life.

“The deadline will come up sooner than you might be prepared for.” My sculpture teacher looked over the rims of his glasses at me, while we sat in his office for a check-in.

“I know, I haven’t begun yet,” I said, “but I have noticed something about myself and my method. As the deadline approaches, that seems to be when I have ideas and something will just click. I’m not worried about it, it’s happened before.” This sculpture project was going to be a larger portion of our mark for this class. He had students, welding, building, sewing and those who had already made 2 concepts and were finding out what failed. I sat there unperturbed, having doodled a few sketches in my book, but nothing that I would be willing to show anyone as actual progress.

He said to me then, that he was surprised at my level of self knowing of my process and approach. He felt confident then to leave me to it.

I haven’t had that level of ease with everything, but it has been a gift when I do feel that ease. Clarity comes with ease. It’s simpler to view and have awareness of that which is around you without distractions and anxiousness.

For me, it feels like a level of silence. It’s a stillness to simply ‘be’ and see things flowing around you. With this ease, this stillness, ideas can land easier, like a moth to a light. Light is the stillness, and that which you need, like ideas or inspiration or intuition, can simply be drawn in. With ease. There is no effort. It brings to mind the Einstein quote: “I think 99 times and I find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence and the truth comes to me.”

It is my goal to have this ease spread, to touch on more aspects of my life. It’s at the root of what I’ve been working on for the past 8 years, with my mindset and level of consciousness. I’ve been feeling the ease spread and settle in, more so this year than ever before. I think that’s why the word that I was drawn to, that kept showing up for me in the early weeks of this year, was optimism.

When we feel at ease, it allows good things to flow easier, and more naturally. There is a peace with it.

Until next week,

Devon

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