metonymy4u

isn’t creativity fascinating? i don’t just mean the way an artist or a musician can be walking along and run themselves into a creation – that’s just a matter of stimulus control, learned behavior. i mean the way we can learn to fashion those moments into a completely other world. you know the process when you see it. it’s the difference between doodling and creation. the artist creating fictions that also live. you know it when you listen to a beethoven quartet or a schubert sonata, a painting by picasso or richter, a poem by rilke or plath or oliver. when i walk down the street and become aware of color, light, texture and shape as a coalescence, i feel something growing all around me even before i lift my camera to my eye. it’s like life itself is learning to breathe again.