I think creativity is a cycling and recycling activity (imagine a bicycle pedal going round - the turning revolutions create forward motion even though the actual revolution is simply going round and round).       

Creatives create in an effort to really understand something.  Ideas constantly revolve in an artist’s mind as ongoing open/close loops.   I have often wondered why artists repeat same theme through their art , rendering many interpretations from a single subject of exploration.   The xploring is an open platform still revolving in the artist’s mind.  

This led to me wonder if creativity cycles in stages or recycled loops:  Initiation – Passion – Action – Resolution – Detachment.   The creativity agitates naturally inside the artist towards continuing levels of “unsatisfaction.”    This quality is a mainstay of art and of creativity – drawing the artist inward towards resolution–and then release.       

Creative cycles can oscillate days, weeks months in the artist’s mind  until there is a satisfactory resolution  to rendering issue.  Creative cycles are forever circling loops.  The artist comes in and goes out of the loop – rather cycling the creativity back and forth, until the exploration loop has been sufficiently tied, or closed in the artist’s mind. 

The creative process is an open-ended loop inviting the flooding of new combinations to cycle and recycle through the filter called the artist…

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