Editor’s Note: This blog reflects my ongoing exploration of how creation, philosophy, and visual storytelling intersect. I often explore mythic language and symbolic imagery to deepen my understanding of artistic process, work that ultimately informs how I approach design, collaboration, and creative problem-solving.
Philosophy of Depth
I have been deeply considering varying facets of philosophy, most recently– the dynamics in relationships and their fragile boundary with fatalism. I aspire to attach my sense of depth to philosophy, especially when it comes to creation.
This revealed converging paths of thought, which I hope to give form here: intense topics expressed through language and art, aching to reveal how I interpret the world.
Creative Inspirations
A lot of my liturgic and poetic sensibility derive from Rilke, Kierkegaard, and Schopenhauer. Their rhythm and poetic cadence deliver a sense of honesty that echoes indefinitely.
Visual inspirations from Klimt, Frazetta, and NC Wyeth. Their moments of climactic storytelling through mood and emotion into myth. I can only aspire to reach such depth.
These explorations aim to construct a world that provokes– where I offer another view of our emotional, psychological, and sensual realities.
Consider this the creation through thought. Where language becomes the forge through which meaning is molded, and what emerges, nurtured through metamorphosis, becomes a new entity, embodied in our lived experiences.
Creation is to be omnipotent in one’s own realm.
Can creation occupy the same realm as destruction?
Concepts with this duality of fatalism and survival are powerful indicators of realism.
This illustration depicts an apocalyptic salvation by an angel amidst the falling ash.
Does the inevitable offer mercy?
Or is it predestined annihilation?
“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies?… I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence.For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Every angel is terrifying.”
— Rainer Rilke
Creation and Godhood
Therefore, we must ask ourselves– do we desire to become a god? Or do we tremble at the thought, surrendering that godhood to others, only to take what other gods create and claim it our own?
How often do we consume what is given yet refuse to give back?
The Beast always hungers, always taking. The Beast is selfish and wasteful.
For this reason, it is necessary for man to confront his own godhood. To witness his own power and to slay the Beast within himself.
If he refuses this divine responsibility, is man weak? Or does he permit unbridled temptation to wreak havoc in his own domain, making his own internal world a decadent wasteland where the light of another god is the only essence that offers life.
Let us not depend on the foreign gods to give life to what is ours.
Let us create life in our own world–
and become our own gods.
May we embody philosophy and godlike creation.