Week 2

Reading Reflection

I really appreciate I Walk Into A White Room (Chapter 1) from The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, because it somewhat helped me recover from the anxiety of “I am losing my creativity”. Growing up, I have never stopped creating. I have been writing fictional stories and drawings since I was a child, and I started to do more kinds of creations as I grew up and became more professional. However, as I grew up, I have always felt that I am not as creative as I used to be when I was a child. Therefore, that kind of anxiety has been attacking me every time I try to create something, and the anxiety sometimes makes it harder for me to focus on creating. As a result, there is now a downward spiral of “the more anxiety I have, the harder it is for me to create, and the less I create, the more anxious I am”. Therefore, I think I am one of the people who need to see this article the most. The fact that creativity can be learned gives me a huge amount of encouragement to keep on going with my creativity journey, and after I read this article, like the author said, I now have the courage to face “a blank page or an empty canvas or a white room” again.

50 Shades

I created 56 different renderings of Tanuki (raccoon dogs).

I am a fan of Tanuki, and I have always been collecting different things made with Tanuki. The pictures and videos of real-life Tanukis are mostly taken by me when I go to different zoos in Japan and China, and all the physically-made Tanukis are either ones I made or ones I collected over time. I took some behind-the-scenes pictures, and I will attach them below.

“Watercolor” material: strawberry lemonate

A group picture for the Tanuki family