A connection and a different series
There is an elusive mental state that most creatives experience known as “the zone.” I’m able to get in the zone pretty regularly when I work. It’s a euphoric feeling where the only thing in my world is the art. I don’t hear anything or feel anything (the heat once cut out in my studio while I was working and I didn’t even notice the cold!) or move around at all. Don’t tell Mr. CB but there have been plenty of times when he’s come into my studio trying to have a conversation and I hardly noticed! There is very little that can distract me when I’m in the zone.
In honor of Top-notch’s and Ninja Nuance’s birthdays coming up soon, I thought I would share this series of paintings and talk a little about the motherhood “zone” as compared to the creative one. I did these paintings from a series of pictures that Mr. CB took of Top Notch and I hanging out while I was pregnant with Ninja Nuance. It just so happens that Ninja Nuance was born the night that these pictures were taken. Good timing on our part!
I had a water birth with Top Notch and Ninja Nuance was born in the front seat of our car on the side of the highway. I will save their birth stories for another time!
The motherhood zone was instant and immediate. Yes, my priorities shifted and my heart expanded and I had an immense feeling of gratitude for life. I was also acutely aware of my focus on them.
This tendency I have to focus solely on them and block out everything else is very similar to the creative zone. Who knew that my professional life would collide so vividly with my personal life!
