posted May 08, 2011 12:13 AM            

What artistic discipline do you think I should pursue. Should I be a musician/composer, a visual artist like a painter or animator, or maybe a writer, or maybe a combination of mediums.

But more importantly, what topics am I "at home with" and have the best capability of profoundly addressing as an artist. Should I write about...

love, loss, longing, and companionship

spirituality and the search for meaning and truth

Social topics and problems in politics and culture

death, how it affects people and how people "die" and are transformed

psychology and the complex mental landscapes of characters

posted May 08, 2011 01:12 AM            

Why not blend those two together?

posted May 11, 2011 02:14 PM            

From your chart I'm getting energies having to do with design, sculpture - stone work (even if it's digitally designed stone work), technology can definitely figure into it so perhaps digital animation. But artistic creativity is so strong here, and it's public - no question about that. The spirituality and hard working idealism is there, the writing, etc. But my feeling is that YOU are the one who has to make the decision of how you want to express your creativity. You can do it all if you want or choose one focus, but at the age of 21 I'd think you would have already begun focusing on one. A big part of life development is learning how to make DECISIONS. There is no one anywhere who should be TELLING YOU what to focus on. It's your life, you NEED to make that decision for yourself. I'm not saying this lightly or frivolously.

My suggestion is to line up all of those topics, make a list and just start writing about all of them. You will be guided, just begin.

Two books I suggest you read:

The Artist's Way and The Right To Write both by Julia Cameron She suggests that every artist should be writing anyway, even if you're a dancer or creative person who's art is not writing.