Thursday Thoughts...

"Artists recontextualize reality and offer visions that were previously invisible. Creativity engages the brain’s daydreaming mode directly and stimulates the free flow and association of ideas, forging links between concepts and neural modes that might not otherwise be made." 

Daniel Levitin

What a marvellous way to conceive of our artmaking - the making visible of the invisible.

I think creativity is such a good way to experience those free associations - one thing linking to that, leading to this.  Quite how the whole thing works is a mystery to me, but there is definitely something going on underground, under our consciousness. I like to think of small things/people/folk jumping from here to there saying yes this looks like this, or maybe try that or remember way back when this thing?

And somehow it all coalesces and connections are made, leaps taken and work produced.

I also enjoy folk who think about creativity in these ways, who try to understand how the magic happens, and in a way, give credence and credibility to the intuitive, the spontaneous and the creative.