Revisiting the understanding of the connection between creativity and knowledge is interesting, especially in how it relates to me. Much of what I stated before about this topic still remains to be true, but also new things come to the surface. I still believe that from knowledge you can build in creativity, which is pushing past the basic walls that are established at the beginning, and going from there. In order for one to be creative, you need to know the essentials, and understand the history behind it all. When thinking about other forms of creativity and knowledge, not just with art, they all fairly fall into the same line. With music, before creating a masterpiece, you need to know much about music in general and how a piece is made, the background of music, genres, etc. Even with television shows and movies, this follows. Let’s say you want to create a show about high school. Well, okay, that’s not something new, there are many shows about high school and the drama that entails. You are knowledgeable in that category of high school, it’s functions, what goes on there, and from that you add something to it to make it a unique show, not just about high school but the other quirks to it making it creative. With me and the work that I do, I think I do much of the same thing. I can take a simple idea and from that turn it into something exciting or something that was never done before. I very much believe in being original and in order to be that, you need to be knowledgeable of what surrounds you, what’s the influence to most, and take what you can from there.
