People ask me where my ideas come from.
I don't know but I have some ideas.
The first idea is that they are not "my ideas". I believe there is a quantum unifier of space and of time and of gravity. A Universal Field of "Like duh! Of course! It's been here all along! I just didn't see it! Eureka! Wow! Cool!" Inspiration, "in-spirit", is peeking into this reservoir of resolution.
A good idea in architecture (and anything else, for that matter) connects and is balanced between these three essential quantifying qualifiers. Architecture IS space, the space between things. Architecture IS time, the time elapsed in experiencing space. Architecture IS gravity, the struggle against it and with it and architecture's own gravitational ability to attract, to entice into, to pull unto.
A second idea: a certain willing abandonment is the passport to inspiration. One must dive deep into this pool of universal creative liquid thought, believe it or not and drop thought-choking ego-ownership. One must laugh at the fear of being considered a nut-case. One must drown into the rich, life giving essence of brilliant illumination, a passionate willingness to die into the idea.
An idea not worth dying for is usually an idea not worth living for.
A third idea about where good ideas come from is the freedom of experience. Experience liberates. Once you've dived off the cliff into the gravity of decision and have been allowed AND BLESSED, to witness the physical manifestation of the (your) idea ... there is no return to the surface of mediocrity. You keep diving and may never again allow (your) idea, (your) architecture, to emerge from anywhere other than the deepest aquifers of the Universal Field of space and time and gravity.
"Is creativity the thought
that sprouts between the rock
and that very hard place of battle
where right and wrong scream their songs of allegiance?
Can the artist live
outside the edge,
whereon, are born the questions
to the answers, alleged?
Can we survive the feast,
wherein the fast
we found,
the very need to question?"
People ask me where my ideas come from.
I don't know but I have some ideas.
And would be willing to share them, all these ideas, with you, personally, one on one, until you too can breathe deep, under the most delicious water in the Universe.
If the idea comes to you ... or you come to the idea ... that you want to stand on the edge and dive deeper than you've ever dived before, to know without question, your place in space and time and gravity, let me know.
I have an idea.
