There's this interesting phenomenon: When you start out with anything, you dont understand how things "should" be done and you know you can't achieve perfection on these early attempts. Your approaches are therefore grounded more in wanting to externalise something. To create purely from a place of interest. This imbues the work with passion and soul. The lack of constraints or broader considerations allows for a level of freedom and creativity that is often absent as you increase in skill.

Once you learn the process, you become locked into and constrained by the "object" (in the Activity Theory sense of the word.). Your focus shifts from exploration or purely creative, expressive endeavours to getting good at the application of something in a particular way.

From here it becomes more about the method and the persuit of improvement in terms of technique.

The resulting works may be more refined but may also lack the soul that earlier works had. It then becomes difficult to get back to that same level of creativity because the conceptual tools become constraint in and of themselves.

I long for that level of unbridled creativity. There's a phrase that comes to mind: "Shoot for the moon and even if you miss, you'll land among the stars". At that early point, you have no idea of what's possible, you just try, and then do. As you learn, you ebcome intimately familiar with the constraints anc challenges of implimenting a concept and those things become blockers before you even begin.