Creative machines

It's perhaps not the most elegant analogy to use, but we are all creative machines to an extent. Whatever your creative output, the fact that you are producing work at all means you have a that feature in common with a machine.

But what kind of machine are you?

Are you like a slick, lubricated and efficient production line producing results of a consistently high quality time and time again?

Maybe you're more like an erratic, patched up machine in need of maintenance, that produces sporadically great things but with a bit of love and attention could produce more and of a higher standard?

Maybe you're some other kind of machine altogether?

What about the wider creative environment you're in? What larger machine are you a part of, what do you contribute?

What other parts are there and how do they all interact to produce a final product or result? Is the output of this machine greater than the sum of its parts?

Maybe you're not a cog in this machine at all but more like the lubricant or the fuel that keeps it all working smoothly?

Following this analogy that we are all in some way a machine, and all part of a larger machine, maybe it can help us to look in different ways at how we can more productive, more efficient and more creative...