Creative Talk Therapy
I like this pic of David Lynch because I think he is pretty masterful at compartmentalizing. You wonder how he can reconcile often creepy subject matter with the real world. There is an unlimited number of "departments" available to you when you embark on some kind of project where the objectives are not fully clear, and connection points have to be made as you go along. (If you work from ideas this is always the case). In many ways, being a creative person requires compartments or "departments" as Marcel Duchamp has said. It was what allowed him to move from being a traditional French painter to being a Dadaist making readymade urinals, or Gerhard Richter moving from painting family portraits to squeegee paintings and conceptual sculpture. Artists should feel at home and go anywhere they want there. Perchance to Experiment You have to be willing to enter the doors on the periphery of creativity, even though there might not be anything behind them. This is the esse...
