Methods

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When you take a class or a workshop you are learning methodology. You are learning how to create in a particular way. The class or workshop usually teaches you “how to” methods with some new media or with some new scene or figure. Once you learn that methodology what do you do with it? Put it aside and go on to another? Or do you explore it, expand it, discover new ways that it can be used for yourself?

Finding the self in your work is hard work. But once you have taken all the method classes you need – venture out and do something on your own find your authenticity in your work. Authenticity does not lie in methodology. It is in you as a person and individual. Work with your senses, your instincts and find your own creativity.