THE MUSE WORKS IN
Mysterious Ways
THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPRESSING YOUR
CREATIVITY
by Mackenzie Clench
“Where art thou, Muse, that thou
forget’st so long,
To speak of that which gives thee
all thy might?”
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 100
M
y dear and long-suffering
reader, Western society
seems suspicious, or even worse
dismissive, of people who wish to
pursue other avenues of creativity
does it not? When we hear about a
fashion model who wants to record
an album, or an actor who writes
a book, we snicker derisively, as
if humans - particularly celebrity-
flavoured humans it should be
noted - should be content to
conform to a single path and never
stray from it.
This was particularly true when I
was younger, in the heady days of
the 1980s and 90s. The idea that
a singer might appear in a film
seemed bizarre, even laughable.
The fact that these creative
experiments were often quite
“BEING A CREATIVE HUMAN IS ALL
ABOUT EXPERIMENTATION.”
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successful - Madonna’s Golden
Globe-winning performance in
1996’s “Evita” for example - didn’t
seem to faze those who believed
that once someone chose a field -
modeling, acting, etc., they stayed
there and never tormented us with
their mystifying meanderings.
It’s a bizarre reaction if you think
about it. Being a creative human
is all about experimentation. While
some may stay within the confines
of a particular discipline, others
may succeed in their chosen
field and later discover they have
tremendous talent in other, entirely
unrelated fields. For example, the
late Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek
fame was best known as an actor
but was also an extremely prolific
and skilled artistic photographer.
The aforementioned Madonna is
not only a chart-topping singer and