Creativity is the second spoke on the wheel of Primary Foods, when assessing our Circle of Life.
Pretty much every molecule of my life has always involved some sort of creative pursuit. If I look back, all I see are snippets of me making sand food or art in my backyard, creating worlds with my dolls in my basement, having all night tie-dying sessions with one of my friends, hoarding things that I thought I could use in some sort of art project….building a castle in my bedroom with my best friend for an English project. Fast forward to my adulthood: I went to college for Advertising design, worked in the Art Production Department of a National Magazine (TV GUIDE), briefly pursued a crafting business using my photography on functional products, started a photo-based blog…which morphed into a food blog after I got into cooking as a result of my herbal apprenticeship.
All of these things are all about creation.
And now I have wrapped up all these experiences into my current LionArt Creations…where I am free to create whatever my heart is led to create…both with my photography, food creations, herbal training, etc.
My day job also encompasses being creative…I make food items, gift baskets, and run the social media for a long running local business here in Shreveport, Cuban Liquor. I really do feel lucky that all my talents and pursuits have all come together is such a way, and how they are able to feed into each other. I am able to use all my accumulated knowledge at Cuban and everything I have learned through that experience helps me with my own business in terms of visual packaging, merchandising and social media.
My expressions of creativity have gone through many incarnations over the years but have been no less important. For me, there is a close link with my Spirituality. I even extend my creativity into creating and decorating my home space. I have done that as far back as I can remember.
Creativity, in whatever form for us, is so important. It can serve as a way of expressing things we feel we have no outlet for, helps us turn off our brain when we need a little relief or to redirect our thoughts, or as a form of meditation. So many people think they aren’t creative, but being creative is not just drawing or some form of visual art. It can be cooking or journalling or doing a crossword puzzle, building a card house, playing games, gardening, making plans…the possibilities really are endless. The important thing is that we explore what creativity means for us.