EXPLORING CREATIVE PROCESSES PART 10: (Adding The Stock) I know I’m beating this “Gumbo Metaphor” to death, but this particular dish signifies clearly the process. Food preparation, assembly, and the techniques involved truly mirror how “Little Georgie And The Shuffling Hungarians” was pulled from theory into a tangible reality. To recap: At this point in…
EXPLORING CREATIVE PROCESSES: PART 8 (Finding the Celery: The Final Component Of “THE HOLY TRINITY”) Going back in time to find the purity of concept was initially like trying to find buried treasure without a map. But through repeated dives, by this point a methodology started to emerge, that at least at the surface, was…
Exploring Creative Concepts Part 7 (They Eat Green Bell Peppers in the Emerald City) 1964 / 6:45 am I remember waking up early on cold winter mornings in the dark, lured into an emerging state of semi-consciousness by the aroma of Cream Of Wheat wafting from the kitchen. I would stumble out of bed and…
Exploring Creative Processes: Part 6 (Finding the Second of Three “Trinity” Components: The Green Pepper) Deep sea diving through my past, I found certain “Pearls” that matched my objectives of finding a state of conceptual purity. On my first two excursions, I found a few core concepts that would comprise the roux of my projected,…
EXPLORING CREATIVE PROCESSES: PART 5 Finding The Onion In the same mental quantum leap taken to find the authentic elements my “Roux”, I used the same techniques to find the first of three elements of my “Holy Trinity”, my metaphoric “Onion”. Just like an onion, I stripped away memory layer by layer, falling backward in…
EXPLORING CREATIVE PROCESSES: PART 4 (THE TEST OF TIME: Section A) Part Three of this series left off with getting to the root of all knowledge, and the act of personal discovery to find core elements of pure authenticity as I made the commitment to “make a gumbo”. Gumbo starts with the roux, for all…
PARTY TIME (A Lake Boy Tale) Gayle Road is a steeply graded street located on the east side of Skaneateles Lake; on the outer Eastern border but still within the village limits. Lined on either side with relatively modest ranch style homes, the street descends sharply in altitude, curves suddenly to the south at a…
EXPLORING CREATIVE PROCESSES: PART 3 THE HARD-WIRING OF THE REALLY LITTLE GEORGIE I happen to be blessed (or cursed) with a memory bank that reaches far back into my early development phase. I have very specific memories that were burned into my naked gray matter via my tiny little virginal synapses at a very early…
EXPLORING CREATIVE PROCESSES: PART 2 WHAT’S IN YOUR GUMBO? (You are what you cook and you are what you eat) Preparing a real gumbo (or Italian Sunday Gravy for that matter. See Blog #29, “The Best Gift I Can Give”) serves as a great metaphor. If you’ve ever tasted a real gumbo made by a…