STEPS FOR A CREATIVE PRAYER

Twisted Tree - Malta (2014)


There is the photographic act, the slow and pleasant wandering with the camera around your neck (in my case, clasped in the right hand), the art of watching and cutting out each scene to a rectangle in your head, the search for subjects, backgrounds, colors, the main characters, a happy and profound involvement with the scene. It is a sort of liturgical contemplation, a respectful homage to the Witness. It is undoubtedly the highest creative act. Actually, it could even take place without a memory card, clicking freely without having to preserve the prey, and perhaps leaving the image free is all that would be left to do... or maybe not.

To go back to those places, those scenes, in the safe environment of your living room, and look at everything from a new point of view, the technical one, the one conditioned by the rules of thirds, the cuts, and the infinite possibilities of post-production. A new way of expressing one's creativity, perhaps less profound than the previous one, but rewarding in its own way. In the end, the moment of showing off inevitably arrives, the narcissistic desire to demonstrate one's ability, creativity, inventiveness, originality. Are you another "like-addict", or maybe you just play along without bothering too much. In any case, the choice of what you want to show is subject to precise rules.

From a "spiritual" point of view, it is certainly the lowest moment of the whole creative process, yet it is important not to give it too much emphasis, and let it happen, as an obvious consequence of this now established social networks practice.

The image flows, someone will appreciate it without understanding it, perhaps only to have your future consent, many will ignore it and some, the most serious professionals, will despise it. It is the game of appearing, of counting, of "I" at all costs. This is where the creative prayer ends.



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