Sierra Tiedman
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Small business owner, ceramic artist, and former art teacher living in the Midwest.
I use writing as a creative outlet to process art, education and life in general.
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The only potter who has ever made me cry
Artists, contrary to popular belief, don’t often experience sudden, profound inspiration. I always think of creativity as a muscle: you have to work it and use it or it will atrophy. Artists just happen to use their creativity muscles (in the context of art) more consistently than the average person, which makes it seem like they have a genetic predisposition for divine inspiration when they most definitely do not. (This is usually the point of the “creativity elevator pitch” where I insist that all people are creative, it’s an aspect of our humanity, so it’s blatantly false to claim “well, I’m just not creative,” but I digress.. maybe that will be a blog post another time).
By Sierra Tiedman3 years ago in Geeks
