My talk is titled "Quiet Spaces and the Way of Inspiration." As creative people, we need to be inspired. Some of us like to wait for it, others like to go and seek it out. Those of us who walk the line between commercial artist and fine artist often must do both. This need for creativity "on demand" inspired me, so I began a search for where inspiration is born.
When I began studying photography in earnest, my mentor told me that in every composition there is a quiet place that holds the work together. I believe this quiet place is born into a composition from spaces where we draw inspiration as artists. This is a synthesis of our environments and our experiences: where time merges with space and is codified into what we understand to be memory.
As a result, space impacts us in different ways. We interact with the world through accumulated information. What does this mean? Our existence is multi-lateral. We have two eyes: the distance between our eyes enables the mind to determine the distance of an object. We have two ears: the dynamics and speed of sound indicate its source. This becomes an experience of "oneness."
In other words, we don't see a barn and think "20,000 square feet of wood, sixty billion plant cells engaging in photosynthesis, cloudy skies with 30% diffucsion resulting in shadows with soft edges therefore indicating recent precipitation." No, instead we think "hmm, what a nice day. That's a nice looking barn."
Humans can "focus": an ability that changes our holistic "oneness" into a concentrated tunnel of information. I call this "forced focus." This allows us to "study" something. Outside stimuli are reduced and we seem to take in more information. In reality, this does not increase the amount of information. We limit noise so that the object only appears more detailed by contrast.
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