Creativity and Inspiration

Creativity and Inspiration is about Abella Ballen's creative process, including drawings and notes from her notebooks with linkages to images that resulted from those ideas. She says it best, "How do I get ideas that result in art? What do we call art? How doesart communicate and to whom does it communicate? These are questionsthat are always posed to artists."As artists we are members of a particular group influenced by theenvironments we inhabit whether they be physical, social, cultural, psychological, or artistic, and this becomes the source of our artisticinterests and visual responses."The imaginative and intellectual work I do in the studio is a form ofresearch, an exploration of a particular subject to be developed in apersonal visual manner. The development of visual expression, whenusing the imagination, often draws from memory, which is tinged byfeelings." Read more