/ http://www.slideshare.net/images/logo.gif / 際際滷Share feed for 際際滷shows by User: butchluna https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/profile-photo-butchluna-48x48.jpg?cb=1523482951 As an artist, I am often asked if the creative process involves a certain amount of research. Curiously enough, it often comes a surprise that the creative act, regardless of whether the artist does so knowingly or not, springs from a foundation of previously held concepts and an amazing amount of exploratory experiments on pushing the boundaries of what is commonly held as Art. More often than not, the common (and romantic) image the ordinary person has of an artist is one of an idiot savant who spends his time locked up in his studio, waiting for the muse to move him, so he can indulge the mysterious urgings that push him to fling pigment on canvas. I suppose this is similar to the common