Creative Style Inventory

1. When did your creative awakening or re-awakening occur?

The first time was seeing a play when I was six. The reawakening has been recent, tapping into other creative talents and desires and actually being in them.

2. What talents do you have naturally?
Acting, writing, graphic design, art (mixed media, collage, oil pastels), singing, expressing.

3. Which elements draw you toward them? (Fire, Air, Wood, Water)
Wood and water.

4. Where and when do you create?
In my home studio/office.

Where and when do you wish to create?
Write at home and create at the Loft, spread out on tables.

5. What activates your creative energy? And what drains it?
I get inspired by other artists, talking with them, seeing their work, going to galleries and museums, the ocean, being outdoors, water, visiting artisan shops, movies, reading great books & great articles in great magazines.
Drains: Medication changes.


6. What creative rituals do you have?
Open the window next to my desk, light a candle and/or lavender incense. Corny, but true.

7. Does nature influence your creativity?
Yes, everything about it. Colors, textures, movement, all of it.

8. Biggest creative hurdle so far?
Being not enough in the process & too focused on the end result. Can paralyze you.

9. What time of day are you most receptive to inspiration?
Late at night!

Risk:
To sail around a cliff.