“I am interested in what the creative mind can do, how design and beauty opens up pathways of better thinking and living, as we navigate towards the future.”
This time of physical distancing has me thinking about what I create and why, digging deeper to resolve my road blocks and find a clearer route forward. Though I am not certain if there is a better route, there are different choices that lead to different outcomes. I am interested in what the creative mind can do, how design and beauty opens up pathways of better thinking and living, as we navigate towards the future.
“The creative mind allows us to see who we are, it is both spot light as it is illumination.”
It is through the creative mind that we see beauty in all its manifestations and contradictions, its consumptive qualities that pierces the eye as it does the center of our being. The creative mind allows us to see who we are, it is both spot light as it is illumination. It shows the way, bathes us in the knowledge of our being human, beautiful in our imperfections, ugly in our need to be perfect. It is the creative mind that builds the path as it lights the path, exposes our pain, teaches our lessons.
It is painting that shows us who we are and architecture that allows us to feel our physical structure. Knowing ourselves through the built environment of created objects and created space. It is the culmination of all that we are funneled through creativity that speaks for and to us, through the universal language of beauty and the poetic word. The creative mind is instinctive tool of survival, carnal spark, gesture of love and hope.
Designer Yves Béhar
Artist Michael Stipe