The simple answer

The secret of alchemy… feel your body and feel how wonderful it is if you pay close attention to your body. Many of the secrets of painting can be unlocked without a teacher. We need to talk about energy. Energy is not just how you start a painting it’s how you start Everything. in the abstract world of ideas creation is frictionless. That’s what makes imagination such a wonderful space to exist in. But in the world, every activity has a certain activation energy, like a chemical reaction. So you need a burst of energy to start something otherwise you will just think about it and think about it and think about it. figure out what you need to get this burst of energy. If you need a cup of coffee that’s fine. For me what is tremendously useful for magnifying and capturing vital energy necessary for this process is the retention of the bodies natural creative fluid. Sexual energy is the concentrated form of creative energy. Think about it like this, is there any work of art in history, even the most supreme among them, Hampton’s throne, the Sistine chapel, any work of art, that could rival complexity and perfection reflected in the conception and growth of a human embryo? Taken abstractly as an artistic process the dance of chemicals in the perfection of unfolding is 10,000 times greater than any creative achievement a human can otherwise participate in. And in doing so certainly the most unremarkable uncreative men can have an impact greater than any work of art we could produce. Something that not only ripples, but tears through history, like Genghis Khan leaving his mark on the steppe. So conception is the divine human act. The paragon of our creative abilities. Contained within men is the seed of this potent creativity, which is often spilled haphazardly in pursuit of orgasm and hallucination. We are shepherds of this divine creative energy given to us by God. If you do not waste it, this energy will bolster you, and the activation energy necessary at the beginning of an artwork comes naturally.