your daily rock : make art

April 19, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

We know this.

Aristotle has said that “the aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” That’s how art saves us–it’s not the form of the art, but the process of it.

And yet we deflect our creative spirits in so many ways: “I’m not an artist.” “I don’t have an artistic bone in my body.” “I’m not creative.”

What if we stopped doing that? Just stopped. It’s a story we’ve told ourselves for so long.

We can tell a different story.

What if we stepped into our creative spirits fully, the ones we had when we were four years old? That’s the real us, before we started comparing ourselves to other people, before we started expecting too much of ourselves, before we fully invested in the story of “not enough.”

What if “make art” could mean whatever we wanted it to? What if our life’s meaning could only be revealed by the external representation of what’s inside of us?

What art can you make today?

Love,

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.