cREA(C)T!ivity

SPP Journal Task on creativity and research...

I remember having my interview previous to being accepted for the course...and more vividly, the fact that at one point I said that irrespective of whether or not I get to be a Multimedia student and make a career of it, I`m still going to experiment and try to give a form to some of my ideas, one way or another. Maybe I`m an incurable starry-eyed dreamer with little if any notion of financial responsibility, but I refuse to objectify my passion, my curiosity and my imagination for stability. Not that I deny its use, I just think it is one of those natural perks of focusing on what I have always felt as important: knowledge and vision.

Knowledge is about questions, riddles, controversial things, taboos and all the things that can cause anxiety and make us want to escape the challenges they pose by retreating into `bonus levels`. Yet, straying from the main storyline usually makes one change from a protagonist (of his own quest) to a Non-Playable Character. Talking about anxiety, this must be my biggest one, for sure.

For the second aspect, vision, I think one has to take a look beyond the rational. For knowledge is consciousness and the world of words, the way our understanding is built up by the power of this form of expression. Still, who can deny the (often) subliminal force of images, sounds and that dazzling melange of sensory perceptions that tell a story of their own. Perhaps the thing I find most fascinating is that as knowledge examines and tames visions, so visions are able to cast a cloud of doubt over the righteousness of our rational selves. None can slay the other without fataly injuring itself, yet they can and should always point a questioning mirror in front of the other. I think I could say that this is my credo, in whatever field of activity, and as long as I won`t find a better guideline for my future, I`ll go by it.

So, how does one follow the...```yellow brick road`` ? Maybe by never being too sure of what one knows: perpetually looking for that extra bit of information or insight, to give depth. Of course, how far down the rabbit hole one decides to go is a whole different issue (or is it?).