It's a Mystery

Thanks to my friend, Margaret Watson, for sending me this quote:

Sometimes I have to get out of the way.  It's beyond letting go of control.  It's about waiting and following one's intuition.  The creative process is a mystery, something that seems to happen on the periphery of thought.  When conceiving a work, I don't try to home in on it too quickly.  In fact, I do the opposite.  I try to stay as open as possible for as long as I can.  This state is full of potential, but it's a terrifying place, too, because all I really want is for my ideas to solidify.  I have so much doubt and fear, and yet the more I can just watch the unfolding with a light touch, the more the piece seems to make itself.  At a certain unexpected point, something comes to the forefront.

Interview with Janine Antoni, Art in America, Oct 09, 2009, pg. 127