The Fifth Re-purpose

And I will keep re-purposing this blog until it contains a theme and a title that makes me consistently want to write. As of right now, it does.

I kept thinking about This Article yesterday and the implications of the right brain understanding something that it can't reveal through the left brain.

Then I started thinking about TM and non-traditional (but are there really any traditional?) methods of locating creative inspiration and utilizing it to its' full potential.

The heart of the matter is that I think a lot like Lynch and tend to "get" his stuff. His stuff being the stuff you're not supposed to get. So I'm wondering- how can that be? And to attempt to communicate this understanding completely fails- playing into the "competing voices" in the brain.

It is possible that the right brain's understanding can be called "subconscious" understanding and I have studied under those who aim to make their subconscious understanding their primary means of existing and using information. However, when one has to communicate using only subconscious understanding, there of course will be failure of communication, since the right brain is not intended towards communication.

But my theory is that because I've heard the compositions of Angelo Badalamenti since I was VERY young, that I somehow subconsciously "understood" the way that Lynch tells stories. When I go to try to create or communicate using my own story-telling capabilities, I use my subconscious more than most and end up making decisions I do not consciously understand. However, they will, as Lynch puts it, knock one "out of your seat" with their "rightness" as far as decision-making goes. To put it into better understanding, for example; I was designing "Antigone" and I didn't need to "think" in the typical sense of rationalizing visual information towards something that would communicate to an audience. I saw a picture of a cliff and I said "YES" and it knocked me out of my seat. I said yes to a few other things as well, and put them into a composition and it almost made me cry. Whenever I show someone the image of this design, I get extremely polarized, powerful responses- 85% of them completely positive.

That is the "rightness" that cannot be understood to communicate it through the left side of the brain.

Back to TM or Transcendental Meditation, which Lynch is of course a big support of (to put it lightly). Lynch has a talent for making subconscious choices that cannot, using left-sided reasoning- create any semblance of a linear storytelling or meaning, but seem "right" to the viewer. I believe that practicing TM can help the creative individual experience this feeling of subconscious "rightness" in their creativity- consistently! And aim to make a study and practice of said meditation for my own goals as a designer (AND moreso, as a person).

My goal is to perpetually fall out of my seat.