from whence these creations come
28th April 2017 | for Creatives | creative process, magic/mystery of creating/art, language, creativity, writing, essay, ideas, Liz Blood |
"Call it whatever you like—spirit, soul, psyche, personality, ego, unified field, inner being. It is somewhere intangible, not physical, from whence these creations come. Yet, by being put down on paper—letters into words, words into paragraphs, paragraphs into an essay—they join the physical realm."
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