A response

Artist: Up until this point I have ignored your barbed words and inflammatory remarks. I have ignored your empty criticisms thrown from your empty house. It is easy to criticize creativity if you do not create, far too easy. 

It is to create objects within the material world that is true. 

The true experience.

It could be argued that the metaphysical world of the individual is the truest and most ultimate reality, and that the material world merely provides the medium for an expression of that reality. I wouldn't expect you to understand such impractical abstractions due to your 'normal' and 'material' understanding of reality. But note that the simple fact of our disagreement is enough to prove the subjectivity of personal reality, not within the world, but within the mind of individuals. And it is through the expression of that reality that a broadening of our limited reality can occur. Or perhaps not. Perhaps it merely limits and suffocates the creative individual. But how would you know, how can you comment if you do not express yourself creatively?

Pointing into the Storm

As for the journey, do you expect that your life is only taking place in the external, sensible world? That it is not taking place in the confines of your own mind and understanding?

To ignore the personal journey, and not reflect on its meanderings, is a terrible ignorance, and one that I would dare not inflict on my psyche. So I choose to look at the path, at the symbols and synergies, the serendipities and stumbling steps.

You say that it is not very interesting to read the description of the journey, and you deride the need to do so. But it is equally uninteresting to wade through your unconstructive negativity spawned from  selfish ignorance. So I will not waste any more of my time in trading pointless blows with your empty bluster.

Furl your sails in a Storm

Caught between the fear and the wish to create and express something personal, it can be difficult to take a step. But any step is useful, and 'no step' is not a step. A decision to express something freely is not itself a free decision, and that can be perceived in the product. A freely produced expression has no reason or rationalization as its motivation, and any attempt to describe the motivation voids such an example immediately.

I simply wish to express myself freely, without the "you should do that", or "you should do this" whispering distractingly in my mind. When my mind has no self-conscious thoughts it expresses itself freely. A free thought has no idea about other people and their opinions, it has no understanding of  itself, it cares not for its beauty or vulnerability or silliness or naivety or genius or mundanity. And most of all a free thought has no fear, especially of your criticism that you shoot without understanding. 

Your ignorance is terrible for its pervasive and eternal recurrence.

Your lack of understanding is as ignorant as my free thought.

Your criticism and my free thought are both devoid of an other. 

Are they brothers? 

Or are they one and the same place?