Here’s another way to say it:
Take a bird’s-eye view.
From high up, details fade and we can access the big picture. This vantage point can lead to fresh ideas and inspirations.
From here we can:
free-associate
harness our emotion + intuition
feel our gut feelings
access the creative well inside
I’ve been a bit under the weather. Yesterday I had just enough energy to make an ikebana arrangement.
Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arranging. The practice roughly translates to “making flowers come alive.”
You could call these arrangements abstract. They aren’t trying to achieve a particular design or mimic something in nature.
You could say they don’t “make sense.”
And this is the exact source of their beauty.
They are unconventional, each botanical given the space to be, and, when successful, to also be in harmony with one another.
