Creativity

Of course, art is always somewhat
subjective, breaking established rules: the artist
intuitively adding imaginary inches to a canvas;

a work in progress, riding waves, finding depth 
both on and off the easel, creatively flowing – a
vision on the loose – 

(paused, but never finished...a true birth
having voice and life beyond the parent's release,
like a child going out into the world alone...

a must, for the painter to keep fluid a moistening eye: 
that mysterious exorcism by his instruments...a true descriptor
ultimately not bound by the Catechism of Lines nor a Page's 
World-edges;

no mural out of the soul, seeking spectacular release
is ever entirely confined to interior walls nor the sides of buildings~

that is why certain poems are read over and over, as if catching up 
with an old friend~filled-in on what is new, an evolutionary rapport...

or one revisits The Museum of Modern Art – finding aged modern 
in the old modern, the past meeting perhaps a cloudy moment and
today a day of awakening transparency – each vintage, an individualized 
spirit-manifest, 

a motivating shade of scentful-color~of brightness and overcast,

with searchable, unseen dimensions, the spaces science
has yet to fill, 

the private domains of both
experimenting student and seasoned mystic...

the limits of what we
know, transformed by the revelation of what we dream, 

the artist, and not the scientist, life's true conjurer of miracles, 
only bound, when at all, by his own restricted conceptions of 
time transforming space.

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Date: 12/13/2022 1:23:00 PM
Marvellous to scroll back to your poem on Creativity - to describe the workings and wonder, is no easy feat, - yours is beautiful, - many phrases which are exactly right, yet written in ways unique enough to catch the reader a bit off guard.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 12/16/2022 3:51:00 PM
Thank you, Sigrid; can't even begin to tell you just how much your positive comment on this work means to me. Thank you. Have beautiful day!
Date: 7/5/2022 2:57:00 PM
Loved your closing sentence, Joe. I agree with your thought. I enjoyed reading and observing the dance of your mind as you shared your thought with us today. Have a great week! Bill
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Joe Dimino
Date: 7/5/2022 3:40:00 PM
Thank you again Bill; blessings my friend!! Write on!
Date: 7/1/2022 12:04:00 PM
I enjoyed reading this deep and wonderful poem, Joe, and I especially liked the last two lines. 'time transforming space,' is such a powerful and beautiful thought. :)
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Joe Dimino
Date: 7/1/2022 2:15:00 PM
Thank you, Evelyn: everything is stagnant outside of creativity. The process is life...and not substance.
Date: 7/1/2022 2:42:00 AM
Joe, I admire the depth and breadth of your writing on the real nature and scope of art..... ever new, adding imaginary inches to a canvas, a vision on the loose, seeking spectacular release. An artist should be an experimenting student and a seasoned mystic. About your persecptives on art, I am unable to write anything of my own to match with yours . So I have just borrowed words from you . Into my FAVE.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 7/1/2022 9:10:00 AM
I really could not ask for a more encouraging comment. Thank you my friend. Blessings!
Date: 6/28/2022 2:03:00 PM
So clear, Prince de Mino. Royally done. Panagiota xxxxx
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Joe Dimino
Date: 6/29/2022 8:00:00 AM
Thank you, Pangie; have a beautiful day. Blessings!
Date: 6/28/2022 1:46:00 PM
Wonderful musings on the creative act, Joe .…and how we perceive a work of art can change with how we live and grow spiritually. Da Vinci mentions ten attributes that alter perception……darkness & brightness, substance & color, form & place, remoteness & nearness, movement & rest. another FAV for me. SuZ
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Joe Dimino
Date: 6/29/2022 8:03:00 AM
For sure, Da Vinci is a god to painters. Whether Modern, Realistic, or abstract the same rules apply. Whether poetry, prose, the same rules apply -- in all matters of the heart, the same rules apply. Thank you, SuZ -- a perfect comment to start my day. Blessings!
Date: 6/27/2022 11:37:00 AM
i love the whole poem Joe but the last five lines distinctly encapsulate what artists and poets are all about. I especially have faved from 'the limits of what we know, transformed by the revelation of what we dream'. Intense poetry my friend, hugs and blessings, Jennifer. h
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Joe Dimino
Date: 6/27/2022 4:08:00 PM
That is so kind and encouraging, Jennifer; thank you. As long as the juices keep flowing, I will keep at it. Such a joy, the process of being creative. Blessings my friend.
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