Who Is A Haunted Artist?
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist,"
A learned person or Master of Arts One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice - the opposite of a theorist A follower of a manual art, such as a mechanic One who makes their craft a fine art One who cultivates one of the fine arts - traditionally the arts presided over by the muses ( now the dominant usage )
Basic questions to be addressed in "Haunted Artists”
(not limited to, and will be expanded upon as needed)
1-do you have a “muse”?
2-is this muse a person or a “thing”, idea, song, or something else entirely?
3-do you dream of your ideas before you implement?
4-Do you sometimes start a project only to find you’ve done something completely
different than your original idea?
5-Does your creative process keep you awake at night?
6-Do you find comfort in creating?
7-Does your art overwhelm you at times? (or all the time?)
8-As you are working on your project, do you feel the presence of “god”, or
“something else” as you work?
9-Have you ever heard a voice who speaks to you as you create?
10- If you have heard a voice, is this good or “bad”?
What is a “muse”? Ordinarily it is defined as a source for inspiration or creativity.
But, Can the muse can be something else? This is the “source” of my project,
“Haunted Artists”, and the reason for asking for accounts, stories,
and experiences from all realms of creative people.
Sigmund Freud is often associated with the emergence of the
surrealist painters due to his study and authoring “The Interpretation of Dreams”.
One of Freud’s main themes was the amount of activity that goes on in our minds
without our knowledge. This resulted in his proposing the now famous model
of Ego, SuperEgo, and ID. Freud distinguished between the “manifest content”
of dreams -what we actually dream- and the “latent content”
of dreams -the unfulfilled wish that the dream represents
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