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Kyna Leski's ten "Ground Rules for Navigating the Creative Process." There are more, or less, of course.
1. The creative process holds internal guides for a project’s development and guides an individual’s growth as well.
2. Only by committing yourself to the authority of the work can you develop as artists.
3. You can get stuck in thought if you aren’t making at the same time. Or one can make mindlessly if one is not thinking while making. If making is simultaneous to thinking, instead of proceeding or following thought, one imbues material at hand with intelligence.
4. Listen and converse with the intelligence in the things you make; a conversation of reflection, conceptualization and critique.
5. "Art (or architecture) is the science of the unique and unrepeatable.” Principles are formed out of the conditions, content and forces of the situation of each project.
6. Problem making is essential to problem solving because the definition of a problem sets in play the direction and momentum of its solution.
7. There is a power to limits.
8. The whole cannot be seen from a single point of view.
9. Words are essential to developing a consciousness of the creative process…an intimate felt experience of a “material language.”
10. Everything is connected, somehow; from the astronomical to the metabolic.
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