Leica M9-P, 50/1.4 ASPHĪ person may have many muses. By trying to photograph something repeatedly, it says both that there’s perhaps more to capture than is possible in a single frame, as well as all of the past frames being insufficient or incomplete in some way. If the artist was happy with their work, they’d finish one piece of art – take one photograph – feel like they’ve nailed the shot, and then never look at the subject again. Having a muse is also an admission of the artist to imperfection – at least in their own minds. There are a few things that make a good muse: complexity and multidimensionality is one ease of access is another (you never know when an idea might strike, and you just have to try something out) finally, some sort of flux or dynamism is another – which is why most muses tend to be things that offer infinitely variable possibilities – for instance, Ansel Adams and Yosemite – or a person. So in effect, muses are necessary stimulants to creativity. It’s not so much attachment to the subject per se, as an obsession with the desire to capture the subject in a medium or object other than the subject itself – which is in itself doomed to failure, because the more one understands about a subject, the more one realizes that it’s impossible to reproduce it in another medium – especially if the subject is something live and changing, like a person. From a specifically artistic point of view, the main one is to try and capture the essence of the subject in the artist’s work in fact, an extremely challenging muse is probably the best thing an artist can have, because no matter how hard they try, they will never feel as though they’ve done the subject justice – and this is what drives the growth of creativity. And I suspect it would be pretty cool as both a photographic subject and backdrop, too.įloating head. *On an unrelated note, that movie contains one of the most spectacular dining rooms I’ve ever seen – from a design and architectural point of view. (I know this sounds like Inception, but bear with me here.*) Creativity is impossible to separate from inspiration, and inspiration is a very close bedfellow of attachment – attachment to an idea. It doesn’t have to be an inanimate object most artists’ muses tend to be people in fact, most artists tend to land up romantically involved with their muses. What is a muse? In its purest form, a muse is perhaps best defined as something that triggers inspiration in an artistic or creative sense. The essays is illustrated with images that are representative of experiments that worked – things I was inspired to try with various muses, and in turn learned something from. This has been another one of those tricky articles to write – mainly because a lot of self-reflection went into it, and as we all know, it’s very difficult to do that and remain objective.
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