Art Crusade #14
Tell us about your muse, or your imaginary friend, that motivates, inspires, or influences your art...
Music is my muse.
Thank you, Music.
On your blog, tell us about your Muse, or your Imaginary friend that motivates or inspires or influences your art. (It doesn't have to be a real person, maybe it's a thing or a place.) Mention Crusade No. 14 in your post, then comment here with a link to your site. Anyone can play so come join us!
Tell us about your muse, or your imaginary friend, that motivates, inspires, or influences your art...
Music is my muse.
Music connects to something visceral inside me. I feel it as well as hear it. When I listen to music I am just me. Not a wife, a mother, a niece, a friend - just me. The real, authentic me. It's a heady feeling, one that I wish I could experience more in my world. I sometimes get pretty crabby when it seems that someone is standing in the way of my enjoyment, ie: "Can you turn that down?" or "Is there something else we could listen to?"
I’m always the one in my painting classes that wants the music louder, I have to set up near the stereo or I’m not entirely happy. When I’m painting outside of class, I’m happiest when I’ve got a CD on with songs that I know all the lyrics to. I crank it up so I’m surrounded by the sound and I sing along for all I’m worth. (for the record, I’m a terrible singer) And I move, not full out dancing – just a little bit of bopping to the beat. And while I’m doing that, something wonderful happens; I forget all my insecurities about art and skill and I just paint. The work just streams out of me and time passes unnoticed. In the end I only stop because I have to – have to go somewhere, have to feed someone, have to go to bed so I can get 4 hours of sleep. And when I’m done I’m completely relaxed. Happy and content.Thank you, Music.
On your blog, tell us about your Muse, or your Imaginary friend that motivates or inspires or influences your art. (It doesn't have to be a real person, maybe it's a thing or a place.) Mention Crusade No. 14 in your post, then comment here with a link to your site. Anyone can play so come join us!
5 comments:
I hear you Laurie! Crank it up!!! I think you'll find many team friends who agree with you on claiming Music as a Muse because our Make Some Noise Crusade still holds the record for number of participants. I love how you put it - that music makes you feel like yourself. That's exactly it! Thanks for sharing with the team!
Wonderful muse! As a little girl, I sang everywhere I went. I later took voice lessons, and learned that voice control is more a mental than physical process. I'm a little more discreet now about where and when I sing, but there's literally always music weaving it's way around my mind.
I can completely identify with music taking you to a different plane! There is one New Age group called Secret Garden that does that to me...I drift somewhere between reality and a dream state when I hear the music and it gives me the most peace that I have ever experienced listening to any music!
Thanks for sharing your muse!
Music can be so inspiring... I know what you mean about always having to have some music on, especially while I work on art. I think I sometimes take it for granted, thanks for reminding me what an important role it can play in the creative process.
I am so with you!! music is one of my muses!!
xo!!
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