Creativity is emotion, communication,memory and movement

When I was younger, and I still had many first times ahead of me, creativity came to me like miniature explosions in my head. They were utterly unfiltered and infantile, and I could not always trade on them because I did not know how.

I only knew that I wanted to create something. I wanted to say something, express something, and I was quietly trying to figure out how to get all the emotions out that was the root of the creativity it triggered. As I got a little older, I started experimenting with different channels to help convey the emotional explosions.

I was often struck by the desire to create when I walked in nature. I was struck by the sounds and smells. All my senses were in use. The scent of summer rain mixed with heartache became the most sensuous poem. The green leaves in the forest, the birds in the spring gave rise to melodies in my head, just as they also made me want to paint. To create with colors. Not necessarily copies of what I saw. And I used the colors I came across in various ways. I tried everything possible. I painted, drew, wrote lyrics that I listened to down, and wrote poems. Every single feeling it gave me I bled down on paper either as text or paintings. I became more and more preoccupied with observing my surroundings—people, animals, nature, culture.

And the more I learned, the more I became aware of my own role in this sensuous adventure. I wanted to convey emotions, the communication between people and the inner life of man. So therefore especially the written word became my channel for the creativity. For me, all the sensory influences I got became stories about human lives.

Even the saddest stories gave rise to joy, learning, and hope, and I mixed the things I saw and then wrote in different ways and in separate genres. I wrote poetry for adults and children, children's stories, and adult stories, and I created poems with words I cut out of newspapers and magazines.Creating something, cutting it to pieces and using the words in entirely new ways was highly inspiring. I learned that the more I experimented, and the more I asked others about their understanding of what I was doing, the more it suddenly became clear that all people look with different eyes at different creative processes. What we see today may unfold differently tomorrow. I learned that context and knowledge help determine how we receive a message and that the message is always different in different people, sometimes with only a few nuances other times on countless parameters.

I learned that creativity is emotion and that emotion creates new feelings if exposed in different ways. Creativity is also communication—the communication between the created and those who look at it. Because creativity creates communication, it also creates movement. It becomes a movement between the creator and those who receive the built. This movement will always produce memory and knowledge, just like in the chaos theory about the butterfly effect. The movement acts as rings in the water. When something hits a surface, rings are created in the water.

When people are affected by something they read, listen to, look at or feel, a movement is created in them, and the vast majority will pass that movement on to others.

This kind of feeling, experience, movement, and communication is unique. It is a universal language that always creates something other than the typical. It broadens our understanding, broadens our horizons, and opens up the lives of others. It allows for extraordinary cohesion across culture, nature, and religion. It gives creativity a voice.

This creative process is the most beautiful among people. We can unfold our minds and thoughts through the most beautiful art, the most meaningful films, through the complex or simple words in books, poetry, or speeches. It is the love of being and feeling. It is communication on a higher and more profound level. It is the extreme quantum leap of the intellect.

With this way of expressing ourselves our world is becoming full of nuances that we can once again scale and make bigger and different. Without this unique form of communication and feeling between people, understanding each other would be far more gray than colorful.