How it is done:
The primary goal of my consulting is to help artists and creative people break through the blocks that interfere with them maximizing their creativity.
Past and present complications leave us with negative, self-defeating feelings and behaviors. This undermines the quality of our creative life and the production of our art. It all leads to the dreaded Artist’s Block.
Life is not easy by any measure but when the artist is affected it results in interrupting the creative flow. This includes a wide range of artists from musicians, comedians, writers, painters, inventors, scientists and more.
Observing the artist:
While many see the artist as being neurotic Otto Rank, a contemporary of Freud, separated the two by saying:
“The neurotic suffers fundamentally from the fact that he cannot or will not accept himself. The artist not only accepts his personality but goes far beyond it.”
Some things you need to learn how to do:
1. Think out of the box.
As an example (and as bizarre as it might sound) Dali created a hat that looks like a shoe.
2. Have courage. To write, draw, sculpt, compose or be creative in any endeavor requires trusting your unconscious. To force it results in stagnation and the artists block.
Artists such as Blake, Ernst, Brubeck and many others of great fame (or not) have described their work in some part coming to them in a way without conscious planning – spontaneously.
Jazz musicians are a good example of this when they improvise, rarely able to repeat the same song exactly.
3. Become a bit eccentric (at least for now) in how you approach your art.
Copying styles in your art results in being proficient such as in being able to play a certain composition on the piano perfectly. While this is good it stifles creativity.
4. Stop listening to the voices in your head (past and present) that critique your work negatively.
Many of these and other steps to break through your artist’s block require guidance. Contact me. You can become the artist of your life.
The consulting I do goes beyond the restraints of psychology. While my education and training certainly has helped me be more effective what I do is not therapy but an advanced form of education. My fees are therefore less than normal therapy fees.
Arrangements can be made for agreed upon times of meeting together or, if you prefer, for blocks of 5 or 10 meetings, which I discount.