RE: muses

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th_nightengale mentioned muse-independant v. muse-dependant creation of artwork, and wondered about the possible demographics of creators who might or might not work with a muse.

[Poll #480760]
Personally, I work independant of a muse but keep on hearing about them occasionally in that other people use them. musesfool helped me clarify the idea of a muse in that the way I'm addressing them here is specifically as a separate individual entity.

If you do work with a muse, what form do they take and/or look like? Do you know what they look like? Do they change depending on your project?

Also, could this be at all culturally motivated? ie. more of an emphasis from western cultures who have a tradition (from the Greeks) of muses? OR could it be more prominent from cultures who do not like to accept the idea that inspiration/creativitiy/intelligence comes from oneself? (versus a higher being? or an alternate being?)

[edit] This also brings up interesting issues around sources of inspiration, and faith; can/should/could inspiration be attributed to outside sources? Common western psychological thought is that outside voices are simply hallucinations. But other lines of argument argue that creativity is simply a perception of more levels of possibility than those that occur in our current realm of existence...

[interesting threads]
- here (started by karose)
- here (started by sorchafyre)
- here (started by karotsamused)
- here (started by ranalore)
- here (started by aliaswestgate)
- here (started by billradish)
- here (started by th_nightengale)

[interesting followup post]
Muses and Friends - a poll and some discussion about a possible link between muses and the use of imaginary friends

[NOTE] The purpose of this post is to present a friendly forum for discussion. Please keep the discussion friendly and open? Concern is valid, so is criticism; but please keep an open mind. ::hugs flist:: Cool beans?

Comments

[permetaform]

ooo, could be be more detailed about "personified creativity"?? I think that's sort of what I'm thinking of when I hear 'muse' but I thought to check...

[lapillus]

In the case with Krycek it was him circa season 5 looking out of a window through the blinds, evidently in Mulder's apartment. It was a visual image that came to me at work and it there was a clear sense that, a seperate entity, was wanting a sonnet (which is very odd given I've never been much into poetry and had previously written maybe three poems voluntarily in my life, not to mention that I am much more confortable with vids than with words.)

Methos was a bit more direct. I did have the image (this time while driving) and when I got home to write it down there was the strong sense that if I turned to my right and looked at the coach Methos would be sitting there.

As I said in the earlier post both of these are very atypical responses for me. I've written about 20 or so short things in various fandoms and all the rest of the time it's been pretty much about words and ideas and images that are safely non-interactive. I've never had a muse experience with vidding and I suspect that the way I process vid concepts makes it unlikely I will.