Imagination

I've been thinking a lot about imagination these days. And how it might be one of the most important things for an artist to have, if not THE most important. Yes, we need technique, and yes, we need to practice, and sacrifice, and pay attention to detail. We need to hit our marks.

But what we need to do even more than that is to make ________ (ourselves, our partners, the audience) imagine that something was different. That a foreign world is delivered to them, or that they are watching-listening to the ecstatic nature of love.

We need to be able to make anything levitate. J.K. Rowling gave a terrific commencement address at Harvard on this very topic.

Photo: from the contemporary gallery at the Corning Museum of Glass