Maija Liepins Project Blogs and Articles on Artistic Process

31/5/2019 0 Comments

How to generate ideas in practice: what I learned from Making Art My Everyday

I wanted to write a little bit about how I generate work and ideas. It begins with an exploratory phase of unfettered play with no outcome in mind. The possibilities are endless, so I have discovered the value of committing to a practice. The practice is defined by a set of rules or conditions:

'Drawing With Trees' Day 1, Walk 1, 2018

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16/5/2019 1 Comment

Sensitivity (a poem) with white summer rain

Like white summer rain
Curling up inside a swirling curve pink shell

Smudge that expression off your face
Relax into the morning dew freshness of a dark and gaze-less space.

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15/5/2019 0 Comments

Dream cartography as a palette for the imagination

Cartography is the practice of drawing maps whereas the palette traditionally holds the selection of coloured pigments with which you are going to paint. Thus, dream cartography is the practice of mapping the dream world, and using the ingredients found there in that rich bed of oceanic archetypal-matter to seed new form: imagined into being in your waking life.

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Maija Liepins is an artist who has been writing stream-of-consciousness poetry since she was fifteen. She practices what Jung calls 'active imagination' which is similar, but with dreams instead of words. Improvisation has led her to add sound and embodied movement to the mix.

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