Vision & Execution
Original Post September 30, 2008
What is it about the brain? It’s always ahead of our hands and our abilities. The wonderful visions that can be conjured up in a photographers mind-perfect light, perfect composition, a pristine vision of the most perfect moment…yet the reality always falls short, a mere shadow of the perfection in our minds eye. Does it always have to be like that? Is vision always ahead of our ability to execute?
This phenomenon is something that has happened in my own creative life many times-and appears to be a common theme in most of my students lives as well. According to those who write about art and vision this is apparently usually the case, the brain is consistently more advanced than our abilities. Funny, because we are controlled by the very thing that controls our hands-so how is it that our brain can envision this perfectly rendered world yet all too often cannot convince our bodies to commence in the creation of that perfection?
Why is it this way?
Tags: Creativity, Photography