POST www: THE CREATIVE PROCESS

The January 18th issue of Newsweek Magazine included a piece by Sharon Begley, entitled, "Your Brain Online" which was deeply thought provoking, and a good portrait of how humanity’s relationship to information has been profoundly changed by the worldwide web.

As an artist, I would have to take issue with her final thought on creativity, which concludes that due to a flood of information, creativity has become a process of “destruction rather than assembly.”

While this may be true about the process of research today, I believe that the truly creative thought process is still based upon the uncommon or unlikely connection of ideas, unrelated to the volume of information through which one must trudge in order to achieve that.

If you get a chance, read the article. It's food for thought. Here's a link to it: http://www.newsweek.com/id/229843