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What fuels an artist's creativity?

This video series began just for fun. I enjoy filming, stepping into different roles, and editing playful little fragments together — it’s amusing, sometimes absurd, and always energizing. But beneath the humor, these videos serve as gentle reminders: that creativity is nourished by the smallest details, that the muse comes to those who are already at work, and that inspiration can be found everywhere. Each video opens with an homage to a great woman artist — figures whose practices continue to echo in mine. Sometimes they said it aloud, sometimes they simply lived it. Louise Bourgeois reminding us that art is about life itself, Yayoi Kusama urging us to dream and inhabit many worlds, and Georgia O’Keeffe, who admitted she was terrified every single moment of her life — and yet kept creating. Her words remind me daily that fear is never the end of the story; it can walk beside us, but it does not silence us.

These women, in different ways, continue to guide me. They remind me that art is not only about grand concepts but also about noticing, daring, dreaming, and doing — even in the face of doubt. So while these videos are playful and lighthearted, and not meant as “Conceptual Art” in the strict sense, they are also part of my path as an artist, a lighter, playful exercise that feeds my creativity. They remind me — and perhaps you too — that joy, humor, curiosity, and the courage to notice life are as vital to art as any grand idea.

Episode 1: Mundane tasks featuring Frida Kahlo

What fuels an artist's creativity?

Episode 1: mundane tasks featuring Frida Kahlo

 

Creativity is everywhere. In a walk, in a book, in the rhythm of a washing machine. Ideas don't wait for the perfect moment or place - they find you anywhere. In the sky, in the shower, in the quiet hum of daily life. You just have to listen.

Episode 2: Imagine featuring Yayoi Kusama

What fuels an artist's creativity?

Episode 2: imagine featuring Yayoi Kusama

 

Sometimes ideas don’t come from discipline or peace.

Sometimes... they arrive when the world blurs, when the night stretches too long,

when sleep slips away — and your body drifts through dreamlike spaces you never meant to visit.

 

From these surreal journeys, we return with small sparks.

Ideas. Sensations. Fragments.

Episode 3: Inner critic featuring Leonora Carrington

What fuels an artist's creativity?

Episode 3: Inner critic featuring Leonora Carrington

 

A conversation with my inner critic. 

The voice that questions, hesitates, interrupts - but deep down, maybe just wants to protect me. It whispers: "Are you sure?", "Is it good enough?".

Sometimes it's harsh, sometimes almost tender. Still I keep going. I keep creating. 

Not because I'm certain - but because I care. Because something in me longs to understand, to shape what I feel into something real. Maybe that's what fuels an artist's creativity: not confidence, but the quiet courage to continue - with all our doubts, and all our heart.

 

Music: Near light by Olafur Arnalds

Episode 4.1: Dreaming Big featuring Tamara de Lempicka

What fuels an artist's creativity?

Episode 4.1: Dreaming Big featuring Tamara de Lempicka

 

In this surreal chapter of the Philosophy of Creativity series, I embody the bold spirit of Tamara de Lempicka — a symbol of fearless ambition and radical elegance. When Almodóvar calls, I don’t need a script. I’m already living it.

 

Because dreaming big isn’t just a fantasy — it’s a discipline. A wild, tender art of believing in yourself even when no one else does. This episode is a love letter to ambition, self-invention, and the glamorous audacity to take up space.

 

Footage from Volver by Pedro Almodóvar is used in this video as a tribute to cinematic passion and daring dreams.

Music: Lujon by Henry Mancini

Episode 4.2: Dreaming Big featuring Tamara de Lempicka

What fuels an artist's creativity?

Episode 4.2: Dreaming Big featuring Tamara de Lempicka

In this vision from the Philosophy of Creativity series, I arrive at the Venice Biennale — not as a guest, but as the artist behind the pavilion.

With Tamara de Lempicka’s spirit in my veins, elegance meets audacity, and ambition takes centre stage.

This chapter is a reminder: some dreams will feel too absurd, too extravagant, too much — and that’s exactly why they matter. Feed them. Nurture them. Let them bloom in places that once felt out of reach.

Because sometimes, believing in yourself louder than reason is the most radical act of all.

Episode 5: Noticing Your Life featuring Louise Bourgeois

What fuels an artist's creativity?

Episode 5: Noticing your life featuring Loise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois once said: “Art is not about art. Art is about life, and that sums it up.”

And maybe that’s why it matters — to pay attention.

To the smallest shifts, the overlooked details, the fleeting sensations that pass through the day unnoticed. Because if art is about life, then journaling is how we learn to see it.

Not as a list of events, but as a ritual of perception. A way to trace meaning in the mundane.

William Burroughs believed writing could be a weapon — but before that, it had to be a mirror. He adapted the cut-up method and created his own version: a notebook split into three columns — Events. Emotions. Fragments.

He called it “cut-up consciousness.” This wasn’t journaling as memory. It was decoding. Mapping. Myth-making.

You begin to notice the rhythm of your own mind — the way longing returns, the way silence expands. Maybe that’s what creativity is. Not invention. But noticing. Letting the page hold what only you can feel.

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Contact: Asya@AsyaAseeva.com
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