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Sometimes
it is useful to have a plan in mind, a framework within which to
create. It seems counter intuitive, surely complete freedom is best
for creative people, but in most cases creating a narrow path down
which to venture leads to great things. A structure can form a focus
for the mind and of the final product.
A
poem these days need not rhyme, or have a steady beat and this can
lead to work that, in its freedom, lacks all the other elements of
poetry as well, like metaphor for example. Anyone creating music may
well stray from historic forms, but at their peril if they walk away
from all formal elements and work in a vacuum. Just so in the visual
arts, if one is to wander down interesting trails and away from the
historic forms of pictorial representation then one should have a
very strong rationale to carry the day. Imagination usually requires
a form within which to work and that also facilitates communication
of ideas to others.
I
am still pursuing photography in monochrome and decided today to also
limit my photography to a specific theme - trees - their trunks
and the texture of the bark, logs washing back and forth in the
waves, a grove of oaks poised like dancers, or the twists and turns
of arbutus..... I set up a narrow path, thought about composition and
benefited from that limitation.
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