Creative Maximus.

Charge on, young, semi-confident writer and see what deep depths you can avoid today while banging on your keys in your Sad Café.

Yesterday in both Fundamental’s of Directing classes, Burnham addressed the idea of a window. It’s kind of this beautiful metaphor for something that I feel like I understand but can’t believe I have a full grasp on. It’s alluding me just that little bit. The world looks like the world you are looking through the window you are looking out of. So we have two realities here: the world, reality, and the reality that your schemata and way of looking at the world have created. Your window is like your personal pair of rose colored glasses through which you can see the world, tinted in a manner that makes it more appealing to you. Things that are important to your mental model stick out and are over dramatized in comparison to the things that are of less importance to you, personally. The beauty of the window metaphor is that it highlights the fact that you can see your reflection in a window. There is nothing that prevents you from taking a moment to examine yourself in that window rather than what you see through it. That’s the beauty of introspection. Some windows are too fascinating to look out of and don’t allow time for one to see how they are perceiving things. Other windows, however, are tailored specifically to showing us who we are in relation to why we do what we do and how that influences our current state of being. For example, the window of relationships in my life is reflective; all I see are the mistakes I am making because of my parents. Each window represents another portion of your schemata: relationships, stress, schoolwork, morals, eating habits, etc. Each one of those is a very important part of your hardwired mental mapping and that individual pattern of yours can be either very apparent to you or very obscured from you.

Another point that Burnham brought up with this was that once you see your own reflection and realize who you are becoming or what you embodying, that you get the rebellion right. I guess that point is one that is more specific to the event that took place or the reflection that you saw. The idea that you can rebel in the right way connects to the reading from last night about the creative maxims. We need to use everything that’s been given to us. If we look in the mirror and we see a crazy mother, we need to find a way to make that crazy mother into a creative thought that can inspire a great work of art. It’s using our windows and the views we see through them and in them to create more things and become deeper, more inspirational artists.