by Maxima Kahn | Sep 9, 2021 | Creative Sparks, Dream Creation, Inspired Creativity
Would you love to write or paint or play guitar every day? Would you like to kindle a meditation practice? Or a gratitude practice? Or a new eating habit? Do you keep procrastinating on a project you want to complete? Writing that book, cleaning out your closet,... 
by Maxima Kahn | Jul 8, 2021 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
The process of creating is as much about the time spent not creating—and how you use that time in service to creativity—as it is about the time spent actively engaging with making art. I am a huge walker and daydreamer. I might say that I’m a professional daydreamer.... 
by Maxima Kahn | May 19, 2021 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
The essential “trick” to creating my best art is to cultivate that inner state in which I release conscious control and open to influence. I enter the wildness and wilderness, the unknown in which I let the wind of inspiration blow through me, the strange happen, the... 
by Maxima Kahn | Mar 18, 2021 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living
“Filling a space in a beautiful way – that is what art means to me.” –Georgia O’Keefe I find myself thinking a lot about this idea of making a little beauty everyday, to which I was introduced by Laurie Anderson via Austin Kleon’s brilliant, down-to-earth book on... 
by Maxima Kahn | Feb 18, 2021 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
The process of revision or honing, polishing and shaping a work of art is one that often stumps creative people. Where to begin? How to go about making the work stronger, better, truer to itself? Will I ruin it in the process? What to cut, keep, add, change? Some time... 
by Maxima Kahn | Feb 3, 2021 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
How do you foster inspired creativity? And how do you know when you’ve had a good creative day? Is it when you have finished a wonderful painting, written 1000 words, or worked out the ending to your dance piece? Or is it when you spent four hours in your studio,...