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FINLAND RESIDENCY REFLECTIONS
Featured image above: The completion of a residency, gouache studies on paper. One month of painting.
“I am always doing that which I cannot do,
in order that I may learn how to do it”.
Picasso
I have been considering how the artist residency at Arteles Creative Centre is set up to maximise the possibility for entering a flow state. A flow state requires both discipline and concentration. It is a state where we integrate our sense of self. In deep states of concentration our consciousness is well ordered, according to psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He wrote the book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience