On Creativity, With Debbie Rosas.

My creative process took a while to develop. One of my first real inspirations came the day I read about an art project called, The Birth Project. Living in St. Louis I was unable to go to Judy Chicago’s groundbreaking event that occurred between 1980 and 1985. I searched for anything I could get my hands on, asking questions, looking at the art picked for this project and reading about the intent. That was it! In my lifetime I decided I was going to create an art project to help people, which is something that called to me from her project. 

The creative spirit in me was itching to play and once given time, space, medium, and materials I began to create and never looked back.

It had been years since I had done anything creative. After my first child was born, I kept myself creative by joining an art association, participating in an art show, and starting my own business as a graphic artist to design brochures for a travel agency. My creative needs were satisfied and I was able to send my entire family on vacation through compensation for my work not with cash, but with trips! Having my second child shifted things, as I tried to hold onto creative time in my life through classes offered at the local community college.

There was little time for my creativity with two small children, a house to care for in the way I wanted, and a husband to whom I was committed as a good 1950’s housewife. That’s the mid twentieth century type who asked their husband what they want for dinner at eight in the morning. The kind who vacuumed every day, even behind the refrigerator; who cleaned the tracks of the sliding doors on their hands and knees with a toothbrush; who could not sit on and look at a piece of string on the carpet without getting up to throw it away. I was nuts!

I needed to find myself and had to leave my family to do it, because I didn’t know at the time, that there might be another, better way. 

Busy doing things that took me away from doing the most important thing: playing with my kids. In those days if you had come into my house you would have never known I had two small children. All this pent up energy and frustration had to go somewhere, so I started running, which started my interest in fitness, which resulted in starting my first aerobic exercise business, “The Body Squad.” Soon, even this wasn’t enough. I needed to find myself and had to leave my family to do it, because I didn’t know there might be another, better way. 

The first burst to create came after I divorced and remarried. I got the urge to buy some materials to build my own frames, stretch my own canvas across it, and paint my own composition on it. Within hours, I created what is today, still my favorite piece. It’s a piece I sold at the time for the most money I ever earned from my creativity, when I badly needed money to send my daughter to college. The creative spirit in me was itching to play and once given time, space, medium, and materials I began to create and I never looked back.

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