What is it to create?

I was thinking about what we as the human race create (which is ironic, because i am just about to ask you to forget you are one).

so…let us take our existence out the picture and examine what to create really is, (i often like to define things by what they are without the presence of consciousness, or without human bias without asking too much).

so we associate creation highly with the start of our universe, whether that’s scientific or religious, we hold hands unanimously here, and ultimately it seems to be a re-disbursement of matter. Everything that was was made into something else quite quickly, which would mean at its earliest form, creation is simply a reconstruction of matter and likely through destruction.

we gather this from said big bang.

and this definition plays its way through time, there always seems to be a sacrifice of something for something else, possibly an eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, was not an expression of the ethical, but rather creation.

So what is it?

It had dawned on me the other day, that we primarily destroy our tools in order to achieve creation (e.g i destroy my graphite to make these markings we call a sketch). Much like the Universe, the Human seems to create in a very similar sense, (is it possible we misunderstood what was said by created in God’s image?*) and this is the transfer of matter from one made thing to another AKA destruction / Creation. Now let us look at what we deem creation and see what happens when we enter the auditory realm of making… we no longer need to destroy to create…what does this do to our understanding of such a thing as creation…

Arguably yes, it does take destruction to reach a place where we can make sound and not suffer the consequence of transferring physical matter, but in terms of creation it is somewhat of a paradox to sacrifice nothing and gain everything. even if it is only processed through consciousness we cannot just disregard such a thing as a non-creation. Although if we could forget that we as a race have defined such a thing as the creative, because I have always romanticized about how musicians are not those who create but rather those who live to translate the infinite scripture, the language of the divine, the voice of the almighty.

Creation- “the action or process of bringing something into existence.” Existence– “the fact or state of living or having objective reality.”

with such definitions a table does not exist until it is taken from the tree, but who is to say it was never there… and it has simply not been found. so i ask that we resign from such linear definitions and look at music in a similar light as the undiscovered table, we can see how it has not yet been created but rather yet to be discovered.

*so if we’re to say that we make up god rather than our collective understanding of God making up us and if we have established that music is the voice of such an entity yet to be discovered, then we can disregard the realm of creation in entirety because we are no longer creating but simply talking.

Divergence

I’m separating the two “God” and “We” and although meaning the same thing they hold different definitions due to the context I’ll be using them in.

God as in everything and existence, and We as in a God’s creation, having our own conscious efforts aside our existence as God (in the sense that we are simultaneously a part of, and God itself due to existence, but diverge from Natures schematics through the creation of consciousness).

SO….

i would like to state that as Artist’s (visual) we are merely cardinals of mimicry, We mimic God’s creation, whether that be ourselves or the many other creatures of Gaia, perhaps even herself and her mountains that stand so high above her children, it still remains mimicry, for God created them all along side ourselves as equal parts of existence, thus all recreation is but a mimic of the real thing, even in the conceptual. To conclude as visual Artists We only create a mimicry of a creation. (amusing as we can see this as God creating God creating Gods God.)

but as Artists of the auditory We do something quite paradoxical and beautiful. As stated before, the realm of creation finds itself redundant here, as We are no longer creating, because We are suspended in a realm where mimicry is not welcome, simply because it cannot exist here, which brings us to the paradox of music’s existence. Let us look at our supposed best friend, the ‘Canis’ Dog. (This analogy won’t sit perfectly but it is the best fit i can conjure, and is simply a comparison of coming into existence.) So this is where We somewhat diverge, consciousness allowed us to pervert the course of the canine species. This is why i said its imperfect… due to the argument that our perversion of a species is in fact the blueprint of nature, thanks to ourselves being part of that very thing. I am asking that we put that to rest for a moment for the sake of the analogy, in doing so it allows us too see how consciousness allowed us to surpass nature’s or God’s will to create something outside it’s path of existence.

Now if we revert to where “God” and “We” are one.

The Dog is our music to compare, but I’m claiming that music is not a creation but a linguistic discovery of sorts. The Dog was very much fabricated making this a tricky comparison, but fundamentally We altered something into something else outside the realm of existence, and i argue music is of a similar nature, where we do not create it because it is not in existence (much like the dog) without us (God) thus being the Voice of god, making musicians a sort of hopeless translator of the enlightened.

we as humans defy the predetermined path of God by perverting a species outside it’s course in nature, in comparison we diverge the path of creation by doing so without destruction discovering the auditory arts, which paradoxically becomes something much greater than any other due to its birth canal into existence. Alas the visual Arts, and although saddening, it is at least humbling, it lays rest with all God’s creations, unable to surpass for it is and will always remain a creation of the universal, not a voice.

Ghost.