The above collage is from http://scrapiteria.blogspot.com/.
Here is something from "the Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron I read today and that I want to share with all of you:
"Logic brain is our brain of choice in the Western Hemisphere. It is the categorical brain. It thinks in neat, linear fashion. As a rule logic brain perceives the world according to known categories. A horse is a certain combination of animal parts that make up a horse. A fall forest is viewed as a series of colors that add up to "fall forest." It looks at a fall forest and notes: red, orange, yellow, green, gold.
Logic brain was and is our survival brain. It works on known principles. Anything unknown is perceived as wrong and possibly dangerous. Logic brain likes things to be neat little soldiers marching in a straight line. Logic brain is the brain we usually listen to, especially when we are telling ourselves to be sensible.
Logic brain is our Censor, our second (and third and fourth) thoughts. Faced with an original sentence, phrase, paint squiggle, it says "What the hell is that? That's not right."
Artist brain is our inventor, our child, our very own personal absent-minded professor. Artist brain says "Hey! That is so neat!" It puts odd things together (boat equals wave and walker). It likes calling a speeding GTO a wild animal: "The black howling wolf pulled into the drive-in....."
Artist brain is our creative, holistic brain. It thinks in patterns and shadings. It sees fall forest and thinks: Wow! Leaf bouquet! Pretty! Gold-gilt-shimmery-earthskin-king's-carpet! Artists brain is associative and freewheeling. It makes new connections, yoking together images to invoke meaning: like the Norse myths calling a boat a "wave-horse". In Star Wars, the name Skywalker is a lovely artists-brain flash."
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