The Creative Process Is Always Chaotic at the Start

The creative process is always chaotic at the start, and necessarily so. To create, we need fuel—tumescence. We must wrestle with it like clay, directing it with love and attention. Only love and desire can navigate its power and reveal its potential. The joy is in this wrestling: discovering our acumen and watching tumescence convert. Yet we often choose 
low-maintenance 
ituations to avoid it, missing the transformation.

What we convert becomes our teacher. In this conversion, we too are changed. By the time expression arrives, the work fits like a handmade glove—impeccably true, transmitting congruency and truth. That transmission not only conveys itself to the world, but sustains us all the way through the expression.