The Cause For Change

T - Transform
I - Ignore

You’ve reached the transformative stage of learning. Learning to use atomic reactions to make better photographs. Everything has led you to this moment when every experiment and experience requires you to accept changes to your creativity that will move you to a better place.

This moment is transformative because no matter what you do or the results you get, you can never return to the old way of making photographs. Just as atomic reaction permanently alters the connections and relationships of atoms and their component parts, you are forever changed.

That doesn’t mean you’re in a good place yet. But you are different, with a new set of skills and an increased understanding of processes and results. Just as any experiment has unexpected results and those results don’t solve the original conjecture, don’t be disappointed.

You can disregard the results if you understand the processes that got you there. The results are important only because they’ve exposed a process that didn’t work and exposed a set of creative efforts that didn’t reach the intended results but added to your knowledge of the creative efforts required to achieve your goals.

Ignoring the results seems to be counterintuitive. It isn’t if your concentration is now on the process. On the process that got you closer to the intended result. Closer to matching the creative urge that drove you to try something and not be sure of the outcome.

The outcome is radically essential when it’s a failure. Failure is another brick in the creative process. Accept it and continue.

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