Journeying

We are travelling down to Bristol - it’s looking like a 5 and a half hour journey. But in the hour or so we were delayed for a 100 yards of roadworks - on which no one was working - the moon was high in the sky, there was a beautiful peachy glow to our right - and we were passing (slowly) these windmills. An opportunity also to check out the night sky - Saturn ahead and a star? called H Ser to the right - using my (free) SkyView Lite app.
My monthly group this morning focused on endings and beginnings taking a creative angle.
We did some exercises drawing tight and loose curves using both our dominant and non dominant hands, then drawing a simple object, again using both hands and finally without looking at the paper - there seemed to be a consensus view that this loosened expectations, interesting things happened and that it enabled a creative flow - I do know, from precious moments, the gift of being in the creative flow, but for me it’s rare. I’m interested in this and will be allowing this to percolate, hopefully to loosen the ego - and the expectation.
There was a suggestion that great abstract art could only be done as a progression by someone who was first honed in the classical technical precision skills - I’m not sure I subscribe to this - personally I think it’s having ‘good enough’ competence and being able to stay in one’s authentic flow - but I’m open to the continuum.
Another discussion focused on the question- how do we know when a piece of (art) work is finished - one view taken was that it never is - and even if we sell or gift it - it then lives on in a different way. I’m curious about this as I’m aware that I can stay with something too long (a ‘safe’ job for example) and of the diminishing returns of carrying on with something beyond its ‘sell by’ date - so for me making an ending can be positive - again I don’t want to make boxes of right and wrong - but to notice and reflect on what works for me - I’d be interested in what others think.