Are emotions important in the creative process?
Emotions are the key of spiritual awareness because only through them we can tell when something is right or wrong. We feel good when we see a baby laughing and bad when they cry in pain. In the creative process, it’s just about the same. Through emotions, we can explore hidden parts of ourselves, let our ego go and be ready to find things that might be hurtful but necessary for us to heal the past. This has a lot to do with the illustration I did for “Neverknowing”. It’s a beautiful song written by the producers of the album Tim Bowness of No-Man and Alistair Murphy and which is interpreted as the recovering of something precious that was long lost. The whole album has a lot to do with that encounter with the past so I used the brambles and thorns all over the illustrations as an analogy of the old abandoned memories that keep growing up in our within. They kind of protect us but, even if it’s harmful, one day we realize that we need to face them and clean them in order to advance. Do
