{"id":2718,"date":"2020-04-12T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2020\/04\/see-what-happens\/"},"modified":"2020-04-12T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T11:30:00","slug":"see-what-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2020\/04\/see-what-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"See What Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again we learn of artists who, in attempting to explain the creative process, can only suggest that it&#39;s mysterious &#8230; ineffable. The conventional wisdom is that, although inspiration can&#39;t be willed into existence, it does require the artist to consciously make a space for it to reveal itself.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s musician Robbie Robertson from the opening scene of the movie about The Band, &quot;Once Were Brothers&quot;:<\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t have much of a process of, like, thinking about this and now I\u2019m going to write a song and it\u2019s going to be about that\u2026. A lot of times, the creative process is trying to catch yourself off-guard , and you sit down and you\u2019ve got a blank canvas and you don\u2019t know what you&#39;re going to do, and you just see what happens.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0240a51f1a10200b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"267temp\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b0240a51f1a10200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0240a51f1a10200b-500wi.jpg\" title=\"267temp\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again we learn of artists who, in attempting to explain the creative process, can only suggest that it&#39;s mysterious &#8230; ineffable. The conventional wisdom is that, although inspiration can&#39;t be willed into existence, it does require the artist to consciously make a space for it to reveal itself. Here&#39;s musician Robbie Robertson from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}