Creativity

“Does the Botticelli Make Me Feel More Matrophilial?”

How many millions have puzzled over Botticelli's “La Primavera” – and the infinite reproductions. And all the basic question: What's it about?

Video: Words – Signifiers of Reality

Words are merely signifiers of reality, not, as we so often treat them, reality itself. Their application, whether as a simple name given to an object or a whole story created about it, forces us to see the object in a particular way, and so limits our perception.

Video: Found Objects

A twig, a faded leaf, a cheap plastic bowl, a dead tree by the roadside: all lonely objects, just waiting to be discovered and reverenced. And aren't people just the same? Another inspiring and insightful discussion by Dr. Diamond.

“Creativity and the Revelation of Spirit”

All creativity is an Instance of Spirit.

Audio Lecture: Creativity and the Lap of Comfort

Dr. Diamond offers a profound reflection on the nature of comfort - and how the true purpose of the arts is to provide it. A talk from November 2020.

“The Role of the Artist”

Everything is an instance of God – of Spirit manifest on earth.

“What was so wrong with the wood?”

What was so wrong with the wood that it had to be carved?

“At the Supermarket”

Outside the supermarket I was immediately attracted to – by – some wondrous patterns on a white traffic line. Of course, I started to photograph them.

“Is carving a rock desecration?”

Is carving a rock desecration?

“The Basic Teaching of Paracelsus and Blake”

For Paracelsus, the imagination was “the central function of man and the source of all his activities.” Blake, heavily influenced by Paracelsus, went one step beyond, capitalizing imagination which could be of anything. Blake referred to Imagination as variously “the Divine-Humanity,” “The Divine Vision,” “the Divine Arts of Imagination.”