39/365 – What’s Missing.
Sometimes coming up with an idea is not about what you have to build or create but about identifying what’s missing.
It is about analyzing what you have and finding the empty spot and its meaning. It is about looking for silence and absence in the noise of presence and things. It is a light look at normal things, it is about noticing not so much what’s already there as much as what should be instead. It is about filtering our lists and guesses until we get down to one piece which is what we didn’t know we were looking for.
Eliminating options, seeing beyond what’s in front of us, choosing what’s relevant.
Too often I forget that creativity is not and only about creating something; it is about noticing what’s not there yet and making something out of it.