What would an Artist do?

Setting The Scene

I am amazed that the Healing Class has had quite an impact on me. I woke up yesterday feeling that I needed to get rid of old emotions. I have many note books written when I was going through a very intense and emotional time. They have been sitting in a box since I moved house last year, and have felt like a noose around my neck. But I had been reluctant to get rid of them. I guess I just wasn't ready. But when I woke up yesterday, I knew I was now ready to leave all that pain and hurt in the past. I no longer need to hold on to them and I realised that psychologically, they were holding me back. They were always there in the corner of my eye.

I felt that I should do more than just put them in the recycle bin.

Today, when I woke up, I thought about what it means to be an Artist. At college during one lecture session we were asked to think about what defines an Artist. There is no real definition, but if you create and are creative then that's what being an Artist is all about, and if you think of yourself as an Artist and you say that something you have created is Art then you are being an Artist. This is a simple explanation I know, its not my intention to go into a long discussion, I just wanted to think about how I can justify calling myself an Artist because I still have difficulty with this.

Then I thought "well if I am an Artist, what would an Artist do with all these note books?" .... I decided that obviously an Artist would create Art from them. So this is what I'm going to do. I am going to photograph them, attempt some abstract views perhaps and maybe some words; I may record myself setting the scene and take photos of the fire as they burn. This will give me the opportunity to not only create some art work from them but also to say goodbye to them. A cathartic exercise and a liberating one.

I am now going to try and remember to always ask myself ... what would an Artist do? ... this may help me to think of myself as an Artist!