Creative Compass
Not a project-management stage. The Compass is the creative navigation used as something moves toward purposeful work — four directions to be faced, not steps to be completed.
Imagine
Let the material arrive without judgement.
Ideas, sketches, wandering, collection.
Prepare
Study, arrange, and choose the approach.
Studies, research, decisions, materials.
Act
Make the work with sustained attention.
Projects, tasks, sessions, revision.
Share
Release it and let it be seen.
Gallery, publication, teaching, exchange.
Imagine → Prepare → Act → Share → and around again.
Thresholds
◐ RefiningChoose, Commit, Refine, and Release / Reflect are still being worked out. Held loosely, not final doctrine.
Something is taken up rather than merely noticed.
Attention and time are actually given.
The work is worked into, and stepped back from.
It leaves the hands; what happened is looked at.