Sep 15 2011: an original idea is often so obvious that when you hear about it you slap your forehead and wonder: why didn't I think about that?!
On the other hand I do believe that creation is a way of recycling older ideas, by mixing them, distorting them, interpreting them with one's own perspective. Times we live, education, personal experience, even mood, a lot of things come into account in the creative process. To me the artist works like a reversed prism, that will take in all the colors of the rainbow and merge them into a beam of white, original light.
It's interesting here to play with both terms of "white light" and "original". Original goes back all the way to the origins...
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On the other hand I do believe that creation is a way of recycling older ideas, by mixing them, distorting them, interpreting them with one's own perspective. Times we live, education, personal experience, even mood, a lot of things come into account in the creative process. To me the artist works like a reversed prism, that will take in all the colors of the rainbow and merge them into a beam of white, original light.
It's interesting here to play with both terms of "white light" and "original". Original goes back all the way to the origins...