Morning creativity. These days the algorithms are pushing me messages about how bad it is to wake up at 3:00 in the morning, or how good it is. Or they explain why I wake up at 3:00 in the morning? They say that it's cortisol - and I can change that behavior.
I can do various things: * Get up in the morning and see sunlight before looking at any screens or anything else. * Drink mushroom tea instead of coffee. * Meditate before sleep.
But, sometimes the algorithm is too focused on increasing productivity as well as increasing consumption for the normal world, where most people exist. The algorithms on social media are pushing you to consume more of thei platform, spend more time there. The algorithms are not focused on encouraging creativity - what about seeing the benefit of having quiet hours in the morning?
I woke up at 1 am the other day. That's okay. I spent until almost 2:00 thinking I could get back to sleep. But sometimes, there are times to just get into the studio and do something. In this case, it wasn't something very ambitious, but it was something very lovely. Painting a black wall black again. What a creative moment.
Painting black on black and experiencing the quietness of just making something, producing something on my own without any pressure from anybody, without any pressure from the algorithm, without any pressure from all the expectations that society has on me.
Just painting black on black and experiencing that was a great celebration of waking up in the morning and living creatively. Black on black in the blackness of the night, finishing at sunrise, happy that I spent the predawn hours creating. Thank you sleepless night..