Sometimes you stare at a blank piece of paper or word processor screen, words swimming around like salmon leaping for the summit of a waterfall.
The Darkness of your own thoughts shrouding you like shadows dancing a silhouetted waltz among trees in a blackened forest.
Then, you turn your mind to another time, another place, long forgotten heroes and monsters comforted in the notion that once there was chivalry and poetic hearts in man.
No longer a marionette imprisoned by a masters strings, freedom beckons its beautiful slender hand, calling softly, sweetly it screams angelically out for you to open your imagination and embrace the distinctive auditorium of awaiting memories and dreams.
Thus you are thrown, cannoned into a world where only you decide who triumphs, a realm of your hearts desires.
Each page turned is a journey into the unknown, each phrase carefully selected to represent the characters, the environment and the chronicle laid out before you.
Deeper you excavate, acquiring knowledge and emotions you relate to situations reminiscent of your own existence until finally the creative volume is complete .
ARTISTIC IMAGINATION
The realm of the artistic imagination has always been the greatest form of escapism known to man, novels, movies, music and art, all forms of entertainment born from an artistic imagination but imagine a world where artistic expression is suppressed, all forms of entertainment taken and destroyed what would the morale of mankind be like without it?
Would the Sistine chapel have the beautiful work of art painted by Michelangelo, Van Gogh may never have become famous for his paintings, Robert Burns would be just another boy from Alloway and William Shakespeare would never have written some of the worlds most renowned pieces of work known to man.
However as you all know the above famous artists and writers did provide the world with memorable works of art and literature and they are not alone.
Since the early dawn of time man has struggled to satisfy an urge, a desire, a feeling of frustration and fatigue, this feeling called boredom, and how does one satisfy this urge? , entertainment!
As long as there is a requirement for entertainment there will always be Artists, Writers, Musicians, poets, actors, film makers these people are the true knights of the modern world all may not hold all the qualities of knighthood and many would be considered less than wealthy or chivalrous however it is the portrayal of knightly truth, honour and love that these people provide that gives them the modestly earned title of entertainer.
Who will be the next man or woman to leave their artistic mark on the world? it could be someone who is already famous or perhaps someone who you pass on the street, never taking a second glance at them only to recognise them in the news the next day.
Too many times someone who could have provided the world with something beautiful has been ridiculed, beaten, broken, abused and tormented,some to the point of life extinction.
Take a long hard look around you, wherever you may be, take in your surroundings and think about who created those surroundings for you, it wasn't god or some divine being, the painting on the wall, the photograph on the mantel, the movie on the TV someone somewhere created those, they were born from imagination and art.
I hear a lot from today's youth that they are not allowed to use their imagination in school, their artistic expression is suppressed by grades and statistics they are forced to a curriculum that the government say will help them in the future, many are told by teachers that they will never be good enough and so grow to believe that they can do no better , many are ridiculed by peers for being different, yet it is those who are different that usually make they’re mark on this world, the geeky little boy with the milk bottle specs may turn out to be the next Einstein or the spotty faced girl with ginger pig tails and freckles may become the next Barbara Hepworth.
We can help keep the world beautiful with artistic expression and use of imagination, remember those fairy stories your grandma told you when you were small, repeat them to your children, let them believe in magic and dragons, elves and gnomes after all your ancestors believed and belief will keep them alive in the imagination, encourage them in all aspects of artistic expression, if your child says " mum, dad I want to be the next big jazz trumpet player" buy them a trumpet and soundproof their bedroom, if they tell you they want to be just like tom cruise encourage them, talent is like a plant it needs feeding, nourishment,sunlight, oxygen to breathe, you are your child's artistic oxygen.
This isn't to say that you must force it upon them, as like the plant too much oxygen or food and it will wither, introduce them to all aspects and they will choose their own path, remember each person has their own destiny, no other has the right to alter or attempt to alter another's destiny but a gentle nudge will not harm.
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