Working in GERM STUDIO…. change feels good

There is this idea about creativity and art production that says that powerful art can only be produced when an artist is in a state of sadness or deep depression.  There is an even stranger notion floating about that the current cult of “happy” is threatening the arts?  It has simply become a “bad habit” and “comfort creature” to use sad times as a catalyst for creative inspiration.

Forget happy or sad.  Let’s for a moment, flip over another rock and see another real posibility.

Because so many artists have created negatively inspired works, like lemmings, we humans, continue to produce works using the same habit.  Somehow people seem to find comfort in misery because it is what is known to be true.  New truths can be discovered and pursued… even in the 21st century.

As artists we should be producing work from a positive or neutral source within, so as to model to viewers what it feels and looks like.  Inciting positivity and neutrality as the comfortable norm instead of melencholy.  

So I say… change your parking spot or sit in a different seat on the train or bus…change feels good.

Hey artists break the “melancholy creative crap habit” and start producing works that inspires as result of having been conceived in a positive or neutral place. I challenge artists to go against the proverbial grain and scratch the word JOY into their work by going into their creative place when they feel GREAT and crank out some positively good work!