REGARDING ORIGINALITY
A Personal Reflection
Originality it seems is one of the primary idols of the creative world. Artists seek to create that which is original and yet are pursuing the absurd. They chase after that which is beyond their grasp. For what is left which has not already been accomplished? And even further Artists, fixed on the world, pursue fame. It is an exhausting task, the pursuit of the original, and leaves a man wearied and often without hope. Originality in the Art world is a direct function of fame. If fame is accomplished it drains a man as would a parasite and then moves on to another equally naïve pursuer.
Where does originality exist? Originality as it would seem exists in the one idea, which has not primarily been expressed. Yet how is this viewed in the Post Modern world with a relativistic philosophy? The question of this age is “What is art?” This question in itself is synonymous with “what is original?” Many have moved from the real to the rearranged, from the normal to the aberrant, from the created to the distorted. I would suggest that the only originality that can be attested to is purely ontological. True originality is that which proceeds from the original. An original creation proceeds from an original creation.[1] In so much as we are original creations of God, what proceeds from us is deemed as original in essence. Originality is therefore not to be pursued, rather to be considered as a function of worship. As an original creation it is to be made beautiful and/or true in such a manner that it brings glory to the one true God.
[1]This is an agreement to a friend’s idea, which in turn was acquired from the Holy Spirit, from whom all revelation and wisdom is made apparent. (I shall make this as a declaration of accountability from now on)
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