tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2427265244488791295.post2216729316946252997..comments2024-02-03T15:15:29.545-08:00Comments on The NEW Ramblings of a Creative Mind: Jan Phillips' THE ARTIST'S CREEDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2427265244488791295.post-90166165507272645782009-11-28T17:58:50.314-08:002009-11-28T17:58:50.314-08:00Marie, here is a copy of the Artist's Prayer I...Marie, here is a copy of the Artist's Prayer I wrote for Artist's Way:<br />Oh god, I hate your name.<br />Help me to creatively find<br />a new name for you.<br />How about Stanley?<br />No, that's too chubby-sounding.<br />How about Faith?<br />Yes, I like that.<br />Faith, I want to create.<br />I am moved and it moves me<br />to be moved,<br />so I want to continue to move<br />and move what's in front of me and around me.<br />Life matters and so I matter.<br />Faith, help me to have the confidence<br />to remember at all times<br />that I matter.<br />I want what I think and say<br />to matter.<br />How others are affected by what I express<br />is their business.<br />I am given over to you, Faith.<br />I am yours.<br />Use me.<br /><br />I don't like that very much - but I DO like this token piece I threw in our symbolic fire:<br />It is time to gather our dearly beloved idolatries and cast them into the fire. We all assemble and agree that up to now we have been meeting regularly at "Our Lady of Inaccurate Conceptions" and now we wish to worship from the Holy Center of Our Being. I, personally desire to cast away the chains of self-imposed exile from myself. I have been hiding away in the nether regions of other people's (particularly mens') petty dramas. I offer these tokens as proof of my willingness to surrender all that does not ennable, inspire and promote the enlargement of my spirit.<br />In the name of many men,<br />Amen<br />p.s. I am through frantically looking for the author of confusion - I don't need his autograph.<br />I am through suffering, unless it brings about great art.<br />I want to live in a place of ecstacy and connection; from the middle of my body and my words - I want a total sensory experience with art.<br />I want to be 'texted' because someone needs my art. (I originally said 'beeped') I'm going to work on up-dating this some more so that it is more of An Artist's Creed. Thanks for the inspiration.Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.com