Flip the Script: Practices for Creativity
Day Ninety-eight
Practices for Creativity
The reason why I began making quilts is because I wrote my autobiography in 1980 and couldn’t get it published because I wanted to tell my story, and my story didn’t appear to be appropriate for African-American women. ~Faith Ringgold
Creativity is your birth right. It is not separate from you; it is in the cells of your body. The way you express your creativity is unique to you. Different impulses of creativity will awaken throughout your life and you have the power to explore the evolutionary impulses of creativity.
The practices today are designed to help you remember what you already know.
Exercise One:
Awaken Curiosity and Wonder
Children are born with a natural curiosity and wonder. You can see it when they lay on their backs and look at their fingers and toes. Learning to walk is explored by grabbing onto furniture then venturing out alone and falling down over and over until mastering it!
1. Using wonder and curiosity as a guide, ask some questions:
- What did you like to do as a child?
- What was the life you imagined or dreamed of as a child?
