one of the Ethiopian Albore Tribal family members that i stayed with

The artistic process, like any creative process, always seems to require a difficult struggle and a personal ordeal to produce a result that reflects our inner feelings, experiences or deep intuitions. Often it is difficult to know what these feelings or intuitions are and the process may also become a way to help clarify them. When an artist gets out of the way and just produces work with no mind about it, it may be seen that the work is Divinely inspired.

It is this creative process itself that is so very interesting to me. The struggle, the ordeal and the overcoming of my own limits and self-consciousness in creativity, represents a great challenge. It is a way of finding out about oneself and the intuitive depth of existence. If I am not involved in this process, I feel fundamentally that my life has turned to mediocrity and the process of growth has temporarily ceased.