Thunderstruck

Reading an excerpt from T.E. Hulme's classic essay, "Romanticism & Classicism," I watched the rain and lightening duke it out in the early morning playground sky. Nestled cozily in bed, my mind seemed to trailed off with the wise words before me. I wrote the following passage below, deeply inspired from the words ..."freshness convinces you, you feel at once when you read something, the artist in a physical state...."

A level of sincerity that speaks in an alerted state is the first experience of creation. Everything I, as an artist see, touch, feel, and romanticize about is first grounded in my-now-moment, the experience that arrests the beauty before me. This creates movement towards language, to capture the just-experienced reality. I have always believed anything felt with sincerity is the beginning point of art. The deep sound of the artist's emotional exuberance felt first, alone in a moment is the inspiration that invites the artist to "turn-around" the experience, from private art to public rendering. The arrest is a pause, often unexpected where the artist withholds judgement of the experience but holds onto to it just long enough to extract the substance of experience. This is the catalyst for art to emerge from within the artist.