EMERGENCE:
IMAGINATION UPWELLING
The
Most basic element in the Artist’s toolbox is Imagination. To dream -
to stare out of the mind’s window and see a new possibility, to have the vision
move internally and emerge into an actual concrete work - is the impetus for
the maker of Art.
The
scientific community has accepted that Imagination is the foundation of the
possible. The opening symposium for the Arthur C. Clarke Center
Imagination is the wellspring that
brings into reality all that we behold in today’s world of new technologies that
were thought of as magic only a few decades ago.
With
the visions of Imagination comes the Upwelling of energy that is the driving
force of the creative process, which is the most inexplicable of the three
stages of my work. Often I look back after the emergence of work into reality
and wonder from whence it came. Many refer to this as the creative “muse”; but I
think of it as the crucible pour - unstoppable, fierce and deathly hot in its
force. The molten energy must enter the mold and one hopes that the mold will
not break.
Emergence into the real world from
the Upwelling is the dynamic flow of energy creating a feeling of timeless
euphoria. Time stops, the world shrinks, and the hand writes, molds, and
mixes our chosen media of self to share our innermost dreams, hopes and
aspirations. The effort brings into Emergence a revelation of who we are.
