tag:dreamwidth.org,2013-09-13:2079757Twelve-week creativity workshop!Twelve-week creativity workshop!Twelve-week creativity workshop!2014-07-27T22:15:22Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2013-09-13:2079757:49042rejectionchallengeWeek 09 Sunday Task: Artist Totem2014-07-27T22:15:22Z2014-07-27T22:15:22Zpublic0Posted by: <span lj:user='rejectionchallenge' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://rejectionchallenge.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://rejectionchallenge.dreamwidth.org/'><b>rejectionchallenge</b></a></span><br /><br />EVERYONE. I am so sorry. I got busy and then I got tired and then I spent several days forgetting what day it was and not wanting to do anything but watch whole seasons of television in a single day. I'm sorry! I don't think you missed anything life-changing, I hope?<br /><br />Anyway, I'm back and here's Cameron's task for today.<br /><br />Choose an object to be what Cameron calls an "artist totem. It might be a doll, a stuffed animal, a carved figurin[e], or a wind-up toy." Choose something you feel protective and fond of. Give it a place of honor and don't harm it. "Honor it by not [being cruel to] your artist child."<br /><br />My object for this exercise -- I'm not really on board with "totem" -- is a plastic toy figure of Evil-Lyn (it's really spelled like that) from the old He-Man cartoons. I associate her with a Mary Sue character of mine whom I feel protective toward* and who has, typically enough of a Sue, more than her fair share of hidden darkness and hidden strength. I've had it for a long time, but today I took it out of a tucked-away shelf and put her on the windowsill behind my desk. I don't know if it will actually help me to have a tie-in toy from the 80s in my line of sight, but I'll try most things once.<br /><br /><br />*I use the term Mary Sue with affection; I am 100% in favor of them and I think Cameron would be, too.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=artistsway&ditemid=49042" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments