It might seem a lot awkward finding such a colorful banana somewhere in the world. And it is.
But if you close your eyes and let your imagination color the well-known green-yellowish taint of the banana into a rainbow-colored banana, you might have unlocked the ultimate path to your own creativity.
Don't believe me?
Well you don't have to. But closing your eyes and concentrating on your breath is the first step we learn, when we start with meditation. And closing the eyes and thinking of something is a visualization of something that might not be existing. Putting all effort into this unimaginable thing, will grant you not only more control over your thoughts, but will also smoothen your way of thinking when you create something only your mind can see.
Don't believe me?
You don't have to.
I took a few pictures of this banana and edited in Lightroom 5. To be honest, I didn't use the paintbrush, i just used the hue and saturation tools and afterwards pulled out the colors I didn't want. Which resulted into the picture above.
It might seem to a few, that this isn't anything special, but just playing around with something so normal and changing the way it can be viewed at, is a great accomplishment and a great way to fulfilling the path of creativity.
Most of the time creatives don't have ideas. Which is hard to think of, but the more complex ideas they have, the more complex they want things to get, until they stand in front of a wall where they can't get any further.
I bet some of you guys might have been there. It is impossible to think of creating anything new, you might just seem devastated by the fact that you can't reach the expectations people have of you.
"Why would I ever want to get back to point 1 and start all over again?", some might be thinking. But thats the point. point 1 is where you earned your experience and got to get knowledge of using tools you didn't know how to use before.
When you get back to point 1, you can reuse those experiences and tools, and create something unthinkable of, something that is provocative and yet so simple.
So what do you guys think?
Am is misleading you with my post?
I hope so.