13 Mar Words to Ponder #48
These Words to Ponder are those of performance activist Hector Aristizabal, taken from a wonderful interview with him at Creative Art Space.
To be creative is to participate consciously in the ongoing creation of the world. Creativity is not primarily about producing art. It is about entering into relationship with life in such a way that something new can emerge between us. It is the capacity to compost experience — joy, grief, exile, trauma, love — and allow it to ferment into meaning, into story, into gesture, into ritual. For me, creativity is mycelial. It is rarely linear. It moves underground before it appears above ground. It connects what appears separate. It turns wound into medicine, silence into voice, fragmentation into form. Creativity is the opposite of resignation. It is an act of faith in emergence.
Marian Rich
Posted at 13:56h, 13 AprilA beautiful and actionable statement about creativity. Rhizomatic is a word we might have made up, but it is another expression of the how of creativity, I love the image of an emotional compost! Hector is such an embodiment of creativity as an act of faith in emergence. We must create and recreate a new world… together.