Today I am late with my check in. I have been hanging out in the very center of my creative process so anything labeled remotely "administrivia" has been swept aside. Oh, if you could see my workspace now... no, I don't want you to see that. Ohmigawsh.
Anyway - I have been continuing to work with and create around that book I started off being disgusted with. I have mentioned it repeatedly during Art Every Day Month. Julia Kristeva's Revolution in Poetic Language. I abhorred it and I opted to take it and destroy it and re-create from what I abhorred about it.
What I didn't expect was I continue to learn from this book.
And I continue to find gems from it. This time, as I created more of a collage with its pages.
Yesterday it was this quote from Lautreamont, a French poet who lived a short yet significant life, "A poet must be the most useful citizen of his tribe."
All of a sudden in the Laughter as Practice, Kristeva's tone is somehow spiritual, even laced with all the academic verbage and densely written text.
The creative process is changing my relationship with this book. It is connecting me in new ways with this author who, before this, I thought was an egotistical, self indulgent academician who had no idea what the working poets out here were about.
That's what happens when we choose creativity rather than a knee jerk turning away from what we initially declare "doesn't resonate."
I'm sticking with this: my Art Every Day Meanderings (even when I am frustrated that I don't think I am "creating enough" and even when I think I am cheating by posting about my theater pursuits or my poetry.
It IS all art, Yes?
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