I love it when people have both architecture and fluidity (order and freedom) in their art and lives—are comfortable with the void and the order, and let both interplay.

To find the inner story of things requires the hovering over darkness, shedding light in pleasure, delineating/naming, finding the elements and narrative and their relationship with one another, and sharing it with others—just as it did for God on the seven days of creation. Then resting. Each phase of creativity has its goodness! Its, it is good spoken over it! Each phase has unique aesthetic joys.

Nothing has changed in the creative process! All the stages together make great art, or living. If we miss the watery darkness, we miss potential; if we miss the shedding light, we miss the glory; if we miss the naming and delineating, we miss the pleasure of distinctions and narrative (which is underrated in our days), and then if we don’t share it, we miss the pleasure of giving and collaboration. Lastly, without rest, none of it works. In this sense, the creative process itself shows us how to live well!