Find a powerful sound source in Nature. Sit with your back to it. Close your eyes and take it in.
Focus on the sound and let it fill you completely. When you are ready release this vibrational
energy onto the paper. Rather than trying to follow the rhythm of the sound — look for your
own rhythm instead. Find your own ebb and tide, your own point of cessation and rest,
your own gust of tremor and trembling power.
Sometime ago we went up to the Turchino Pass — a point between Ovada and Genoa where
Appenine mountains begin their descent into the sea. Often, especially during the winter months
the pass is shrouded in deep thick fog. Here is the record of that creative encounter.
The noise you hear is the powerful mistral wind blowing from the sea.
Find a stream, a river or another flowing body of water nearby. Spend some time focusing on
and drawing the current. Experience the flow filling your eyes and awareness,
moving easily through your hand and pencil, spilling out onto the paper.
The goal of this encounter is to create a connection with our own flow.
By focusing on the process instead of a result, we allow the creative current
to move through us undeterred.