An amazing photographer by the name of Chase Jarvis has a phrase which he calls the “Creative Gap”. Basically, if you’re an artist of any type of medium I’m pretty sure you have either experienced this phase in your artwork sometime or another or might be currently going through it right now (like myself). The basic idea is that we all are inspired by other people’s work or ideas on a daily basis and in that inspiration comes a desire to achieve that such level of “greatness”. However, when we as artist attempt to mimic this level of achievement in our own work we many times seem to fall short of the end desired. Now, we have no problem clearly recognizing the talent of others at one end of the line and acknowledging our own capabilities to achieve work as good or even greater than the inspiration at the other end of the line (inspiration <--------> our creative genius). The problem or challenge lies in us filling in that gap to the point where our creative work mimics the inspiration that we follow. Most people give up on trying to fill that gap the first time they try their hand at art because they realize that it’s harder than it looks to imitate greatness. We (I included) fail to realize that everyone in life has a starting point in their creative genius. Picasso probably wasn’t Picasso when he first started out and neither will we be when we set out to try our own hand. Everyday we have to work, mess up, start over, work again, get criticized, struggle, cry and work some more until we slowly but surely inch away at the creative gap and begin to start seeing the idea on paper look like the one in our head. With all that said, I still think this video probably explains it better :)……

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.