We often can get overwhelmed with sheer amount of stuff that we have or that we feel that we need. The materials that we use are vital to our creating. Artists need paint or clay or pens. Bakers need ingredients, pans, and baking sheets. But many of us fill our creative spaces with a lot of stuff — stuff that we might not necessarily need — stuff that we might not necessarily even use.
We can easily be overwhelmed with all of this stuff, and find that we freeze with so many possibilities. I talk a little bit about how new materials and new supplies seem to contain a promise of creativity, but creativity doesn’t lie in outside things. It lies within us.