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In all object making there is the craft aspect, the design aspect, and the concept aspect.
So the craft has to do with a skill, the manual skill in this case, and how you are working
with color or so on. And the design is how you lay out your manuscript and how it's going
to end up looking. But the concept is more above all of that. It's what your basic idea
is and what your basic intent is for communicating. Now that leads me to the idea of the body,
the mind and the spirit. It's almost as if these relate to each other. Now in terms of
the ah ha, getting the ah ha experience and the creative process in general, we can boil
it down to this idea, there is the idea of saturation, incubation, and illumination.
So saturation is you working hard, incubation is you've worked too hard, you walk away from
it, you've got a problem to solve, and illumination is somehow that, that problem solves itself,
it comes to the surface and you have your ah ha. There is a whole book, or two or five,
written about that idea. Now here is something fun, I want you to know that you can look
forward to three good signs if in your practice of calligraphy, it is a good sign when you
can enact what you think.