About
I'm a writer. What needs to be understood about this is obvious, like all understanding. Writers are artists. Like painters who are visual artists or singers who are vocal artists. My art is literary. Artists are creators and as a creator its my role to make something from something else.
All artists draw their inspiration to create from the energies of the world. And so, the creations themselves take on the properties of energy, which is never created or destroyed--it only changes form. The human experience teaches us to both love and fear energy. We love the energies that warm our homes, cook our meals and fuel our cities. We fear energies released in atomic explosions and forest fires.
The relationship between inspiration and energy is carried through to anyone experiencing an artist's creation. We love and hate what artists make. We fear the replications they may have on our communities and even what those creations say about the artists themselves.
This makes the life of an artist and his or her role in society quite precarious, I think. But don't take my word for it. Take it from those with a bit more clout than I:
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." -- Picasso.
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one...he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent. -- Honore de Balzac
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. - Thomas Berger
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. - Carl Jung
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down. - Julia Cameron
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.
- Theodore Adorno
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.
-William S. Burroughs
Now that we're on the same page, understand that when you read words on mine, you are experiencing the life and times of lives and time. You will read the world through a filter that disperses the world for my own solace. For your entertainment. For your enlightenment and benefit. Just like the world full of energies from which my inspiration is derived, some of these things are terrible, while some are quite beautiful. Both may leave you speechless.
When you read something that bothers you, take a good look around. Maybe there is something there, within your reach that you can touch. If you can touch, maybe you can change it or tell someone else who can. If you have to be reminded that its there, chances are you haven't done anything about it.
Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine. - Magdalena Abakanowicz
All artists draw their inspiration to create from the energies of the world. And so, the creations themselves take on the properties of energy, which is never created or destroyed--it only changes form. The human experience teaches us to both love and fear energy. We love the energies that warm our homes, cook our meals and fuel our cities. We fear energies released in atomic explosions and forest fires.
The relationship between inspiration and energy is carried through to anyone experiencing an artist's creation. We love and hate what artists make. We fear the replications they may have on our communities and even what those creations say about the artists themselves.
This makes the life of an artist and his or her role in society quite precarious, I think. But don't take my word for it. Take it from those with a bit more clout than I:
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." -- Picasso.
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one...he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent. -- Honore de Balzac
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. - Thomas Berger
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. - Carl Jung
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down. - Julia Cameron
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.
- Theodore Adorno
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.
-William S. Burroughs
Now that we're on the same page, understand that when you read words on mine, you are experiencing the life and times of lives and time. You will read the world through a filter that disperses the world for my own solace. For your entertainment. For your enlightenment and benefit. Just like the world full of energies from which my inspiration is derived, some of these things are terrible, while some are quite beautiful. Both may leave you speechless.
When you read something that bothers you, take a good look around. Maybe there is something there, within your reach that you can touch. If you can touch, maybe you can change it or tell someone else who can. If you have to be reminded that its there, chances are you haven't done anything about it.
Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine. - Magdalena Abakanowicz
jaebi is a fictional author of fiction stories, poetry, prose and philosophies of existence.
Most notably, jaebi has embarked on an effort to complete The Guardians, a novel about a modern society that lies on a tipping point between a traditional way of living an the pervasive and rapid advancement of specific technology.
The Guardians isexpected to be published in the final quarter of 2009in the thick of the editing process and will release in the Spring of 2010.
