My Sculpture Class

6 Play freely in my art without censorship

Self censorship is perhaps the greatest creativity killer.  When I stop exploring and start trying to create work that will sell my creativity suffers.  Sometimes I explore playfully, sometimes deeply or ruefully or even heartbreakingly in my art.; but the key is to keep exploring without censoring.  Of course, when I decide what to give to the galleries to sell self censorship is important, but not when creating.  Sometimes my best pieces come from work that I was tempted to censor, sometimes the work I was tempted to censor is unsellable.  It doesn't matter.  The truth is that the work comes from deep within my soul and needs to be made.  It is only after that that the judgement can begin.