Watching this video of Julie Brustein, writer and radio producer, who talks about creativity and the idea of 'letting go' is indeed inspiring to me. Through her examples of artists, their works and the experience they've gone through, it becomes clear to me that " Creativity also grows from the broken places" as quoted from the speaker herself.
Julie Brustein had brought in 4 distinctive elements of creativity in this video. As equally important each of these elements are, I have to say that the last one is the most powerful. Embracing loss. Agreeing with her that this is the hardest to accept, I have to also point on how accepting the reality of a tragedy, gives us hope and optimism in our life. It allows us to change our whole perspective and also soughts us to keep our eyes open to the whole picture.
The photographer she introduced, Joel Meyerowitz, was a prime example on embracing loss. It is very inspiring how he was determined to continue photographing the World Trade Centre eventhough it took him a lot to do so. Moreover, the perspective he held was admirable. He embraced loss and it served him good.
Ending off my reflection, I'd like to re-emphasize Brustein's quote on how "Creativity also grows in broken places". I think that very phrase makes me realize how I should not always find the defined perfections but to look out for imperfections too as they do create a whole new beauty. Now, I guess I'll be able to see the whole picture be it in an artwork or my daily life.
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