# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BxGF1kHBQfM
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- **Posted:** 2019-05-05T21:01:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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Open Sessions Artist 2018-20: Bahar Behbahani on the Creative Block and Process
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“When I feel my brain is stagnant or overwhelmed: I start the remedy with a short walk: approx. 1-2 miles (fig.1).
It may or may not work.
That means that I have to walk more: approx. 2-4 miles.
At the end I might give myself a reward by going to a bookstore and coming back with a book to the studio (fig. 2).
This mostly works.
Sometimes it doesn’t work.
I will go to the next level.
I try to choose a destination so I feel “useful” and “goal oriented”. (i.e “I’m going to cross Williamsburg bridge to Manhattan and count the bridge bars and get back to the studio.”)
That usually works.
If that doesn’t work, a longer walk is needed: maximum 7 miles. (fig. 3)
If that doesn’t work, I know the issue is bigger.
Then I go for a hike: Bear Mountain. (fig. 4)
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Total Distance: 4+ miles
Difficulty: medium+ (challenging hill, 1100'+ altitude gain, small amount of rock scrambling)
Estimated hiking time: 2.5+ - individual, 3.5+ hours - group” - Bahar Behani
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Bahar Behbahani lives and works in new York. Her work has been shown at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, the 11th Shanghai Biennale, China, and the 7th Moscow Biennale, Russia.
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Open Sessions is a two year artist program of interdisciplinary events and exhibitions focused on drawing, organized by Rosario Güiraldes and Lisa Sigal.
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#OpenSessionsTDC #BaharBehbahani baharbehbahani
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#creativeblock #creativeprocess #walk #hike #itworks #williamsburgbridge #bearmountain
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Image: Courtesy of the artist.

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