Create with Love

We create art to allow ourselves to express ourselves.

I often think that. In most cases, our emotions that we ‘translate’ into artwork, this is the result of ‘negative’ feelings that have been hidden in us for some time. Artists, to a greater extent, can deal with their emotions in this way. However, there are also works created in these ‘positive’ colours. 

Nevertheless, the very concept of ‘love’ emerges from both of these categories, which I have bracketed. Often negative emotions, whether anger, sadness, grief or even hatred! It involves a rejection of love, our love. And I don't just mean the categories of romantic or family feelings. Love is the main foundation of ourselves and it is the point from which more emotions emerge than we think. 

Each of my works, where I poured out negative or positive emotions, had their foundations in love - for something, for someone. Because there was something important to me, vital, called home, and it was taken away from me, treated disrespectfully or destroyed. In many cases, the expression of anger, grief and sadness is the wounded love within us. And let us allow ourselves to feel each emotion. Because emotions are there for something, they are signposts for us that should not be avoided. 

Therefore, the slogan ‘create with love’ does not suggest feeling for a specific thing or person, in specific terms. It is to create with the foundation of our existence and the basis of authenticity. 

Authenticity in expressive art is a beauty that no one can take away from you. 

Creating an artwork from a level of authenticity is quite a challenge, despite its essentially simple form. In theory, it is about being yourself and allowing yourself to feel. However, it is no less of a challenge to allow yourself to do so and give yourself over to your emotions enough to create an expressive work of art. With art it's a bit like having an inner child - you have to feel it. 

Suggesting from the direction that from the level of love come the emotions through which we create, we can accept the theory that each emotion is capable of giving us something and not necessarily a negative one. 

Earlier I cited here the theme of expression during feelings of anger, rage or even sadness mixed with grief. When feeling these ‘negative’ - emotions, by the way, we can create something truly touching and beautiful. Because no one ever said that the beauty of art has to be entirely ‘positive’. Let's look at the fact that most works of art, not only visual art but also writing, are created in states of emotional decline. Our emotions, which we alchemise into an art form, are contained therein and affect the next person in all sorts of ways - sometimes the interpretation can surprise us! Our falls are not always the result of receiving another person's emotional fall. Sometimes the reception of a work can be the complete opposite of our previously hidden feelings and emotions.

Therein lies the beauty of art - receiving it in an individual way.

As artists, when we create our work, in most cases we put parts of ourselves into it. Sometimes, when creating, we are simply accompanied by passion, fascination or imagination coupled with creativity. This does not change the fact that we are hiding something more beneath the work of our favourite medium. Something that has its foundation in love.

To quote earlier, fundamentally most emotions stem from love. Not necessarily for someone, it is often a love that we have within ourselves and is somehow affected or stimulated. ‘Love balancing’ is nothing more than feeling calm - that's what I would call it. In this state we can also create something beautiful. There is no determinant in which state the best works are created. Most might be inclined to say that we create most beautifully in these negative emotions. I can't deny this entirely, but I don't think this statement is entirely equivocating for everyone. For most it probably could be, too. A more interesting direction is to ask ourselves why, in happiness, we don't give ourselves such authenticity and openness to make these works, on a par with ‘those’? What is holding us back? That someone will laugh at our joy? Will we get hurt? 

This could be a topic for one of the next posts. But coming back to the main topic, it doesn't matter whether we create in positive or negative emotions, they all stem from the fundamental love we have within us.
Examples include writing poems after a broken heart, as well as creating a work of art when we are laughed at by our family. People hurt our love for a passion, for someone, for some place or situation, sometimes even assumptions, so that we create works in emotional downturns. The same goes for this positive side. Love poetry overflowing with happiness or beautiful landscapes of adored places. This happens from a level of the heart that we are not fully aware of and, above all, very often do not notice.  

Being compatible with our own emotional awareness can be difficult and we don't always manage to figure out very well what we are actually after.

This is why I encourage you to take a look at your work, read it, look at it and think about it:

What emotions accompanied me then? 

What are they now? 

What is the reason for these feelings?

This is a relatively simple task to undertake, but more difficult to realise if we ourselves are not aware of the love we carry within us. This inner love, is also about knowing ourselves. What we like, what we adore, what we love, but also the inverse, what we dislike, do not tolerate or perhaps even hate. The aspects that make up these fundamental questions to ourselves, we each get to know individually. 

Many times it happens that other people are our reflections, or rather our inner world.

Through them we also get to know ourselves - through others. And I am not talking about copying behaviour. I'm talking here about behaviours, views or even things that other people like or have. We are not always compatible with each other, yet at different stages of acquaintance, we get to know ourselves and our preferences or values. Creating with love is nothing more than creating authentically and in harmony with ourselves, no matter what emotions accompany us. Because each of them has its source right there, in our inner love. Whether you create something artistically or not, I encourage you to express and expel these emotions through creative creation - no matter what category. Human beings are even made to create, just as they are made to make decisions. 

So, what is your decision?

Will you try Create with Love?