Fast on Creativity?

I’m a glutton for creativity but have been on a diet these past few months. Have I been chastising myself? Guess not. No artists goes confessing and atoning for a sin of wanting to create more nifty outputs (Oh my! I just called myself an artist). It’s art that inspires people. It’s art that magnifies the beauty that people don’t often notice. So, why fast on creativity?

Mister Sunshine has been yelling “It’s summer time” as if we haven’t noticed. Malls have been crammed with people waiting on their order of halo-halo. Selecta, Magnolia, and the more costly Haagen Dazs have had an increase in their sales these past few months. I have been sleeping for a week now in my mom and dad’s room for mine has turned into a sauna bath. With the temperature outdoors, I am compelled to stay indoors. How can one create an editorial worthy shoot when the temperature outdoors would turn your models into participants of a political ad? But come to think of it, there is creativity in such ads. But unlike those ads, never did I desire to deceive people. I wanted them to see the beauty that exists in reality not the pretend beauty they offer their voters.

Force Fasting, that’s what I would call this state of starving myself with a creative output. It is through this so-called force fasting that I get to brew something new. Yes, the outputs were put on hold, no photo shoot for the moment but the ideas just keep coming in. Yes, it has been a long break after that Nuebe De Pebrero project but the list for the possible projects just keep getting longer. I shall break the fast soon and when I do, I know the output would be worth the long wait!

Photos from Style.com and "Atonement"