I am steps away from the threshold, the transition from creating to waiting.
The last 6 months or so have been in preparation for my upcoming art show and all creative attention and energy has gone there. In the title wave of creative energy that we continue to flow through, I am moving into the incubation phase. What started with the birth of an idea (phase 1), moved into a rising of energy to create the collection (phase 2), which climaxed and slowly folded on itself as the hard work was over and now the marketing and sharing began (phase 3), and once I cross the threshold of the art show, I will have completed this creative cycle (phase 4).
There is something glorious and horrible about this phase. While I still have a week to squeeze out the last few drop of energy from this project, I crave that time of rest and solitude that will come. All while dreading the mark of an ending, where I release my art into the world with no control of where it will land, or how successful it will be.
It will mark the death of this project, this collection. I will lay to rest this concept and work as I build up energy to birth the next idea.
The waiting room can be peaceful, sometimes too much so, but it’s important to remember that this is a phase of the cycle. Never lasting forever, nothing does. It’s a place to sit, process, wait, be with the in between, and then move through that threshold to the next phase. Like a soul moving on to whatever is next, Limbo is not the end point, for those who wait too long there, they become haunted, or better said, they haunt.
This is the never ending energy cycle of creativity. Whether you are new mom forming a child to birth and sitting in this incubation period. Grieving the loss of a loved one and resting until you have the strength to take the first step in a life without them. Perhaps you too have a project that has ended, or a career, and are in the waiting room until you decide on what’s next.
Wherever you are in this cycle of creative energy, I hope you continue to move through it. Like a wave in the ocean, ride it all the way through. The ups, the downs, the stagnation. All of it is forming something beautiful.
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