You know, ... I believe Eric Wilson's thoughts are generally true. I know that for me, my most personally satisfying 'works' (and again I emphasize 'personal') have come to me at times of deep and dark sadness. I look back now at some of the interpretive works (certain artwork, photos, and/or poetry, etc.) that I 'produced' during the 'lowest' times in my life, and I realize that I could not have 'created' them, but for the 'state of mind' I was experiencing at the time, but for the melancholy.... Some times, when I 'try' to be 'creative', ... I simply can not 'be' so. I think personal creativity ... is not simply a choice, but rather is born of circumstance. And when it comes to any of us, it simply takes precedence over all of our other needs or activities. It 'desperately' has to be accomplished right then and there ... lest we die.... right then and there... It becomes a mandate and not a 'choice'.... It is a 'voice' within us ... crying out to be consoled. And it is not 'profited', but rather it is extremely and solely personal....
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