Binge-watch TV shows is the last thing I mean. Though if you are the sort who sits in front of a TV and discovers that his personal universe is smiling, so be it. Go ahead. A happy person is what the Big Creator above loves. But then there is hardly any art involved in switching on a television and scrolling through channels to find something to watch. And then forget. Because only then will you be ready to watch the next one. However, if binge-watching even TV shows makes you discuss those shows, the actors, the directors, screenplays, plots, themes, and trivia about the making of the show, you are bang on target. You have successfully turned yourself from a passive couch-potato to… hmmm, maybe a fried dumpling, lets say. That’s quite an elevation.
Now to the more important part of this essay. Binge-listen to award-winning novels on Audible, binge-write posts for your blog, binge-compose poetry or songs or music, binge-exercise to get trimmer than others ever wished for you, binge-converse with your spouse to rediscover whatever it was that had sparked decades back, binge-paint, and binge-draw. Is the list complete? No, it isn’t. And I almost forgot binge-reading. Binge combined with stuff that makes one feel better and vibe better with action that is even remotely creative is what I am hinting. It is entirely up to you to hunt for what you would like to binge-do.
You might counter this by asking: Easy for you to say binge-paint. Or binge-listen, binge-read, and binge-write. How does one do this? How can a person write 500 words every day for 30 days? I am sure this is what you mean when you ask people to binge-write.
Yes. One can do binge-create anything.
The technique is simple enough. Just start. And keep going. Does this sound difficult? For instance, if it is binge-paint, choose your choice of paper or canvas, your choice of medium, your choice of brushes and even time of day. Then go ahead and start painting.
Ok. But how do I decide what to paint?
That is not as important as finding the colours that make you happy. Start by applying colours on paper and your intuition takes it from there.
I must admit though that the next step isn’t exactly in your hands. It is better, therefore, to leave some space to fit in surprises. One’s intuition nearly always surprises. You don’t have to hunt for subjects. It is subjects that will track you down or be pulled in by your intuition. Your intuition has an unending stock of surprises. It is the same for writers. This is how things happen to me. Topics, words, phrases, expressions, and even titles hunt me down when I am writing. And this game gets stronger and more stable if I am writing every day. If you are painting, paint every day. Is this so difficult to understand?
The colours you like are there. The right paper or canvas and other things an artist wants are all there. Your intuition has offered you a vision that you may interpret in your own way. All it expects you to do is to dive a bit deeper and understand what emotion looks like from inside.
Once done, you need to let shapes emerge out of the wispish vision that you have… and there is no need to control anything. Let the hands and the brushes and the paints do what they need to. If this looks like something random, then let it be defined as random. Define random shapes with confidence.
Your own creation will slowly take shape. You will be experiencing the story of Pygmalion and Galatea, just as Jean-Léon Gérôme, Anne-Louis Girodet, or George Bernard Shaw did at different times in different ways. Well, Colonel Pickering and Professor Higgins in Pygmalion probably had similar experiences though it was Bernard Shaw who made them see things that way. The point is, jump in… or dive in, if that appears fancier, and you will soon be in the deep end of creative turbulence.
.
.
.
Arvind Passey
26 February 2025
.
It is time to binge everything… binge-write, binge-read, binge-paint… Artwork created by Arvind Passey on Leonardo ai.
