Lewis De Joseph | My Creative Path

Posted on May 10, 2026 by Lewis De Joseph

In Yorklyn, Creativity Has a Home Nestled in the historic mill village of Yorklyn, Delaware, the Center for the Creative Arts has served as a creative gathering place for the community for more than forty years. The nonprofit arts center offers visual and performing arts programs for people of all ages and abilities, creating a welcoming space where creativity, learning, and self-expression can thrive. From painting and photography to theater, music, and mixed media classes, the center brings together students, working artists, and curious beginners under the same roof. At the heart of the Center for the Creative Arts is

Brick Ghosts and Iron Teeth

Posted on May 9, 2026 by Lewis De Joseph

Finding beauty, decay, and unanswered questions in Yorklyn’s ruins I visited Yorklyn De, where there are ruins and abandoned building galore to explore. Here is a place where the bones of industry still jut out from the earth like ruins of some long lost civilization. Hidden in the hills along Red Clay Creek, the village was once a thriving mill town, loud with machinery, smoke, and the constant churn of industry. Now it feels suspended somewhere between history and haunting. Brick walls crumbling and trees growing where they don’t belong. Rusted gears sleep in rooms and in fields. Empty windows

What Remains After Living

Posted on May 8, 2026 by Lewis De Joseph

Gardens, history, and the stillness left behind I recently spent time exploring the DuPont estates in Wilmington, Delaware; Winterthur, Hagley, and Nemours. In a way, Hagley started all of this for me. I visited it last year while traveling through on my way to Tennessee. I tend to leave room in my trips for unexpected stops, the kinds of places you stumble across without planning to. Hagley was one of those places. What I expected to be a quick visit turned into hours wandering through buildings, gardens, workshops, and the beginnings of the DuPont story. Before the estates and elegance,

“The Moment Is Enough”

Posted on May 7, 2026 by Lewis De Joseph

Bethany Beach I’m starting this first post of this series of posts from my trip to Delaware on the last day of my trip. We got up before sunrise to go to the ocean side of Bethany Beach. There’s something a little ironic about that. The trip was ending just as the day was beginning. While everything around me was starting fresh, I was standing there at the finish line. I was packed, the van loaded and I was dreading to go home. Camera in hand, we arrived just as the entire sun rose above the horizon. But that was

Critique Post #3- The Voice In Our Heads

Posted on March 11, 2026 by Lewis De Joseph

The Voice in Our Heads We all know the voice. The one in our heads that is constantly looking to the past or projecting to the thousands of possibilities of the future. You know the one that judges The one that whispers we’re not ready. The one that says someone else is better. The one that suggests maybe we should just scroll instead. The one that says this has been done. The who will do anything to put our ideas aside and make us passive observers of the things, the lives that we really want. That voice doesn’t

Critique Post 2- Why We Seek Critique

Posted on March 4, 2026 by Lewis De Joseph

Why We Seek Critique There comes a moment in every creative life when applause stops being enough. Social media seems to excel at this… “Nice work.” “Beautiful.” “Love this.” It feels good. It always will. But eventually, if we’re serious about growing, we want something deeper. We want to know what we’re not seeing. What we really want is feedback, constructive criticism, critique that will show us what we might have over looked. So why do we seek critique? Not for validation. Not for approval. But for clarity. Sometimes we seek critique because we want to know if our

Post 1 : The Practice of Becoming: A Series on Critique, Growth, and Creative Vision.

Posted on February 25, 2026 by Lewis De Joseph

I’ve been thinking about critique for years. About encouragement. About ego. About growth. This series is my attempt to put language around what actually helps us become better creatives. The Practice of Becoming implies this is ongoing. Not mastery. Not arrival. Not “ten steps to excellence.” It suggests a workshop that never closes, lights left on, tools within reach. I want this to be an ongoing practice in my life. This series explores what helps us grow as creatives. Not just technically, but internally. I’m less interested in perfect answers and more interested in better questions. My current goal

My creative pursuit, changing a lifetime thinking process.

Posted on February 19, 2026 by Lewis De Joseph

I feel I’ve always been a Creative. I started with photography. In my early 20s I went to the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, Where I took several classes for the creative and technical sides of the camera. Then I built a darkroom in a spare bedroom and took classes around that part of this creative medium. Then the digital era came upon us and transformed the medium, in ways that I could never even have imagined. For several reasons I was slow to embrace it. The cost of entry was very high back then; I didn’t even

Creating Growth

Posted on January 21, 2026 by Lewis De Joseph

Creating Growth Challenging Our Creative Growth I was in my Monday Flow group last week and the gentleman that hosts it referenced something I said the week before just as we were wrapping up. We were talking about growing creatively and I shared a philosophy that I learned many years ago. Since I’ve evolved my own thoughts and ideas on the concept. I’ve tried to follow it, live it and apply it to all aspects of my life. I’m a chef by trade and can get in the kitchen and just go. I’ve worked just about every aspect of

It’s Simple, Just Show Up!

Posted on January 9, 2026 by Lewis De Joseph

It is Simple… A daily routine, Just do it, and Start from the beginning. Just Show Up Outside of my photography, I’ve never been this active in my creative life. With that said I’ve decided to challenge myself. And in a fortuitous coincidence it just happens to coincide with the beginning of the year. I’m going to choose a guiding statement, make a commitment, select a mantra. Given everything I’ve written, wrestled with, confessed, reclaimed, and recommitted to this year, one word rises to the surface again, and again. It’s already living in my work, my practices, my vows

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