The artist connection --- the creative force connects us

The universality of the creative process is what binds us together. The surprise and amusement of our common fascination and obsessiveness with our creative muse makes magic --- laughter, bonding, sharing, learning, respect...

The driving force of creativity fascinates, in the traditional roles of painters, poets, writers, ... But equally in endeavors not thought of as art --- engineering, mathematics, science, law, ..

When excellence tops competence it is always an art form, the leaders and leading edge are always driven by imagination and creativity. Would you call Einstein's relativity physics or poetry, all his work was done in his imagination, none in a lab. Is Obama's eloquence correct grammar or an inspired gift? Steve Jobs continually transforms the computer landscape, Apple describes their employees as artists, not engineers.

The best science, oratory, mathematics, poetry.. conforms to the strictest professional canon when analyzed --- viewed passively after the fact. When viewed before the fact, when constructed, they all are products of the unbounded creative imagination.

Click the 'CREATE' image to the right --- click twice to renew inspiration.

Physicist connects walt whitman to his muse Frederic Church with Meteor

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/physicist-decodes-a-walt_b_600719.html

Interesting article..

If there wasn't a connection between Whitman and Church (Poet and Painter), then this rare meteor event would have been lost.

An electrical explanation for the scars on Mars

Mars and the Grand Canyon

http://www.holoscience.com/views/view_mars.htm

My poems, stories, and adventures

The book of my poems, stories, and adventures has been published, here's a preview of the first few pages:

My Poems, Stories, and Adventures by Thomas J McCabe | Make Your Own Book

For me it is rather...My dark side touches my creativity

Exceptional people will bolt to the racetrack and bet on a horse with the same name as an old fling that shows up on facebook. Exceptional people will play the lottery with their birth date. Whereas ordinary people like me reach for their paintbrush or pen in inverse proportion to the number of visits to the psychologist.
I find that paddling thru poetry is especially productive during low tide. Whereas, my preference for painting would be to create like the Rolling Stones and be high all the time. However, inspiration comes like a flood, which is fun because I can at least get some humor from shocking my psychologist.

Here is my latest...
Holy Trinity of Teatro Signorelli
The Father is in the middle, the son on the right and the holy spirit on the left.
I have been studying the trinity in the bible. I also have been studying the blues in Greg Mort's paintings. I decided to try something different with my blues. I normally would use 2, but because of Greg and his blues I used 5 in this painting.

Does your creativity have a dark side?

Sally e-mailed the thought below which is a good discussion topic.

To what extent is your creativity driven by an inner torment? Would you trade places with a normal person giving up both the torment and creativity? Do you think yourself quite normal with a creativity gift with no particular downside?

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"So many scientists, philosophers, writers, poets and artists live
in torment! And while the public is inspired by their works, they
themselves would happily exchange their great talent for a few
days of inner peace. You may ask, 'But why are there so many
disorders and so many tragedies in the lives of such remarkable
people?' Because, while these creative people have nurtured the
gift they received from heaven, they have not been concerned
about working at a deeper level or accepting a disciplined life.
Many of them even think their suffering and imbalances feed their
talent, and in a way they cultivate them.
It is true that, in the case of exceptional beings, their
achievements of art and of the mind, as well as those of the
spirit, arise more often than not out of the suffering and deep
turmoil they have somehow been able to overcome. But to truly
overcome them, an inner work is necessary, and if this work is
non-existent or insufficient, in the end imbalance will prevail,
with all the anxiety and suffering that brings.

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov"