This video was an assignment for my Power of the Image class; a "Media Dream Sequence."
The prompt was to find about a minute of audio, and put both videos and images to its track in a way that created a message/paradox.
To me, this sequence supports Elizabeth Gilbert's (speaking) ideas about creativity and how we can't consider ourselves, as mere humans, the source of creativity. (That maybe creativity is like an external sense of genius on loan to us every now and then...)
But I also think my imagery, in conjunction with what Gilbert says, add a layer of intrigue. I used a lot of the masters' work (really a lot of art from the Renaissance and forward in time): artists who had adapted that mentality of "being a genius" vs. "having a genius."
We have come to truly admire and work after these artists; is it possible that we could have some balance of thinking we are the source of creativity but also that it could be a random, almost "otherworldly" thing on loan to us?
That to a certain degree, we are responsible for honing our creativity, and for actively using it: but that we also cannot expect to be "geniuses" 100% of the time?
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