S4 Ep. 243 Beyond the Five Senses: Exploring the Realm of Artistic Creation

Speaker 1: Hello there, welcome to the World Cafe podcast. This podcast has been designed with created content that centers on the power of words. Can we really do anything without speaking? Can we really do anything without the agency of words? Yes, that is what this podcast is all about, and I am your host , amakri Isuboye, your neighborhood word trader. I believe in the power of words , for it is the unit of creation . I trade in words to profit my world. I trade in words to profit my world. Amazing, one beautiful space. I love coming into the World Cafe live show. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good everything. How are you all doing? How's it been? At your end, beautiful, yeah, it's wonderful. At my own end here, beautiful, beautiful, I must say. You know, I am glad, super glad , coming into the studio again. You know, sitting down and thinking about my audience and you know all of the stuff we share. Thank you. I want to say a very big thank you for being there. I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart, from the depth of my soul. I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart, from the depth of my soul. I want to say thank you. This episode, what are we going to be doing today? You know, each time I think about what I'm going to share with you, sit in front of you and all of that, I really ponder and ask, ponder and ask. How will it come across, how will they handle it? You know, looking at the what we've been doing so far within the space, how will they handle it and all of that? So it gives me this what I call it thinking moment. I go back to process all what we've been doing and all of that and somehow I come to tell myself, okay, I'm going to bring this aspect of the show to share with my audience. And in cause of doing that, okay, let me tell you the topic. Yes, I know that is. Maybe it will help guide what we want to do today the creative realm. The creative realm how do we create stuff? Where does it come from? How do we go about it? How do we process all of that? I am not going to go into the textbook and all of that, but I'm going to share with you how I see it, how I view it, how you know all of this, the creative realm, or the realm of creativity in a way. So when I was processing this, I came across the thought put forward by Leonardo da Vinci. Yeah, leonardo da Vinci is a great mind. You know, when you read about him he did a lot within the art world, scientific world. You know he's known for that and a lot has been. When I say ascribed to his name , you know, ascribed to his name , so beautiful, yep. So he said something and I looked at it and I said it goes a long way explaining or rather pointing to what I want to talk about on this episode. He said an average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling , eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odor or fragrance, if you want to call it that, and talks without thinking. Now, so we have. When you look at this, you see what is. We have certain things to look out for Seeing, you know, listening, or rather hearing. We have feeling, we have tasting, we have physical awareness, being aware of your environment. We have being aware of smell. You know you smell something and also thinking, more or less like the five senses. You know he's talking about the power of the five senses, describing it like a doorway to something greater. It like a doorway to something greater, and a lot more times we we neglect these things, we just gloss over them as if to say, whatever, they don't matter , and all of that. But in actual fact, if you look at it closely, they do matter. I'm going to take it from the perspective now. The other day I was discussing with my wife. She's a chef, she, she does a lot of cooking and, uh, she doesn't just cook, she creates meals, that's the best way to describe it. Sometimes she just comes up with something and you know. So I just ask her how did you come about this? She said, well, I just sat down there and I was processing my thoughts and I just felt like you know, okay, if I do this, if I do that, if I do this, if I do that, this may come out this way, that may come out that way, and somehow it comes out good. The other day she made a bread sandwich, I think, and I've never tasted that before, but it tasted so good, it had this heavenly taste. If somebody would ask how do you know how heaven tastes? Well, that's how it tastes. So we kept talking and one thing I came to figure out when she was speaking. I had to pay attention to it Somehow in her subconscious she's come to like see. Her vision, her sight more or less goes beyond just seeing a piece of cake, a piece of bread, a tin of tomato or whatever. She goes beyond seeing you know , like the ingredients, what, what is it going to taste like in your you know when you put it on your tongue, your taste boards, and like deconstructing it to that level and fusing some form of energy into it and what comes out at the other end is something amazing. So, looking at how she goes through her process of creativity, creating the reality of food, it's beyond just the mass in front of her, the ingredients and all that. She kind of interacts with the ingredients and all that. She kind of interacts with the ingredients, like calling them by name and all of that. She is not a biochemist, I'm the biochemist. So when I tried explaining one or two things at that level, she said yeah, yeah, yeah, because you come to see that now some of us are attracted Like let me take it a step further. You eat something some years ago . The taste in your mouth doesn't leave you, it registers in your senses, as it were, and somehow you want to have a feel of it again. You want to eat that meal again . So you didn't just eat something, you tasted something. You didn't just should I say, look at something. No, you saw something. You went beyond, you know the physicality of it and to relate with this ingredient and all of that, and it's like they hold this promise that satisfies something within you and you, just, you just have to, you just have to make contact with it again and you go back. That's how it is, you know, within the creative space, yeah, within the creative space. So the other day I looked at, I looked at how musical notes come together. If you check the musical note, the scale is just, I think, about seven of them with a repetition which makes it the eighth, like do re mi fa sol la ti do. The last do is a repetition because it starts with like you're going back. So you now see how these notes are brought together in such a beautiful pattern combinations, how la relates with do or do relates with ti, or ti relates with sol and sol relates with do or do relates with t, or t relates with saw and saw relates with you know, and all of that, at the end of the day you hear people sing and somehow, when you look at guys who create songs, you know musical piece or pieces and all of that, like when you listen to keck franklin or when you watch keck franklin producing, or rather creating sounds, you see how he plays on the key as in the piano, I beg your pardon and how he plays with the keys, and you come to wonder you ask yourself how did he know that that was a f, sharp , e, this, uh, that? But that is to tell you he's not just seeing the keys, he's not just hearing the sound, as it were, he's listening To him. The sounds are alive, that's the best way to describe them. They are alive, they are like entities that he can relate with and when he speaks to this one, this one connects with the other one, the other one connects with the other one, and when there's something missing, it's like brothers and sisters, of a kind of a fraternity, so to say. They are fraternized and it's like something is out. That sound is missing. Sound A is missing. Let's go get sound A. And they like tell Kirk that sound is missing. He A is missing. Let's go get sound A. And they like tell Kirk ah, that sound is missing. He said oh fine, yes, bring it in. And at the end of the day, he creates this unique sound, a melody that is so beautiful that we can't but listen and we want to hear more. So, in that realm that is how I see it the realm of creativity yes, your, your senses are needed, but somehow you need to surrender your senses, as it were. You know, and like a door opens and you walk in and you begin to see, and that's how I say because I write, I write. You know, I, I write, and that's how I see writing, that's how I see writing when I want to create a piece, and all of that. Sometimes it's like how do you go about it? How do you come about? How do you know that this is meant to come in here, that is meant to come in here, and all of that. But the truth is I just have this knowing like I am seeing beyond the veil, I'm hearing beyond my auditory that's the outer ear and it's like I want to create a piece, I want to write, write about this, I want to write about that and I want to encourage people out there. And so what do I do? Yes, I'm still here with you. What do I do? I go beyond the veil More like you dig deep, you know and you feel like something is damned within you and it needs this pressure, or rather it wants to release this pressure. And you're just like, how do I let this pressure out without cracking or rather creating a destructive, would I say presence? So you begin to learn that art of the creative space and you know what it takes. Patience, yes, it does. It takes patience, like if I ask an artist or a singer or a writer, as the case may be, how did it come? Sometimes days, sometimes weeks , sometimes months, if not years , you're creating a particular particular piece, a masterpiece or whatever you know. So not in a hurry, yes, but they have a sense of urgency. So you pick these things as you walk, as you're going through the streets, as you're driving, as you're working in the I mean doing your chores or whatever. It's like you are tuned, you are connected to this place where you're working in the I mean doing your chores or whatever. It's like. You are tuned, you are connected to this place where you're just waiting for that. The best way to describe it is like yes, not like it is inspiration. You're waiting for it to rain down and, like you, begin to put the drops together into a bucket or into a cup or into that vessel, and it just goes, one after the other, one after the other, one after the other, one after the other, and before you know it, you have a bowl filled with water that can satisfy the taste of someone. Yes, that's how it, that's how it is, that's how it is. So I just want to encourage you . That's why I came into this place to talk about the realm, or the creative realm. It's real, it's a beautiful one . I mean, it's amazing, it's amazing. And when you get into that space, there's no limit, there's no limit. You are not bound by time, as it were. You are not bound by the physical laws, as it were. You are only bound by the realm of creativity, the law that governs it. And what is that? You want to create something new. You want to create something new. Why do you want to create that new thing? You just want to satisfy a test , a hunger, not a selfish one now, but one that the world needs, one that the world needs to engage with, to calm those troubled situations, those troubled minds. Is it with your song, is it with your write-up, is it with your food. So I want to talk to you today. You know, don't just in that domain, that realm you find yourself, don't just look at it as something like, well, you just want to do it for doing's sake. No, you are a portal through whom or by which? Solutions, answers come in art form, music form, scientific form, but they just have to come in. Yes, they have to come in. All right, guys, you know how we do it on the show. I just felt to share this with you honestly. So, in that space where you are and what you're doing, you know, connect beyond the sight. You need to see beyond, you know, putting it in your mouth, you need to taste. Scripture says, yes, taste and see, for the Lord is good. You can actually taste it, not test, taste it with your tongue, with your, and there's this relationship. An enzyme is released that causes, you know, this catalyzation. You know it brings about the breaking down and all of that, and the energy is released into the human soul. You, you, you don't just hear, listen, listen, listen. The nodes are speaking like they are actually speaking. They have mouth, the buka cavity, they are releasing something and they want you to hear it and capture it, you know , and you don't just look at. You don't just look at it from the superficial perspective, no, you become aware. Now, before I go, I'm going to share this. You know, each time you see people who are into the fashion space, they deal with colors a lot, they play with colors and you ask yourself how do they bring about unique colors, like for women? When women begin to describe colors, it blows my mind, you know. You hear things like peppered red, sea green, what do you call it? Now I like this baby yellow, baby pink, shawty, this, and it's like how do they come about that? Baby yellow, baby pink, shouty days, and it's like how did they come about that? So it's like the colors, bright colors, dull colors, you know, they relate with them. They see these colors and the color speaks to them and it's like they give it a name and what they call those colors eventually become so within that space. You see it. And also with fragrance. You know, when you see a lady turned on, sorry to say, you know, like turned on when a particular smell comes in, I mean she what's the word now to use? Use, she perceives it or she smells it, you know, and it's like relating with the smell. So it is beyond just the liquid that comes out from that uh compressed bottle. It goes into the atmosphere and it's like it travels with the air and the, the, the molecules are broken into this minute invisible, should I call them, uh, strands, but they just go into the nostrils and they can tell that is vanilla, that smells like, that smells like cocoa, that smells like ah, yes, that smells like. They begin to describe and all of that. And you see that, how do we now create these smells, recreating the smells, the fragrance? I mean, how do you recreate them Basically, relating with this smell, at that molecular, if not sub atomic level? Or even you want to say, yeah, that level, you know the level I'm talking about. Yes, that unseen level. They begin to like, describe them and, upon description, they bring them back. The bottom line is it created an experience and they just want to have that experience again. I mean, for all of us, when you go for that drink, when you go for that substance, when you go for that thing, when you go for that substance, when you go for that thing, when you go back to that particular place, you had an experience. That's why you're going back there and that is how it is for the creatives. Alright, guys, okay, I felt I should come share this with you. So, whatever you do within this space, don't be in a hurry. I'm going to end with these words the average man yes, that's what he said, but now the average doesn't just look. He or she sees. He or she doesn't just listen. He or she doesn't just touch. They feel it. He or she doesn't just eat. They feel it. He or she doesn't just eat. The taste is what drives it. He or she doesn't just move. You don't just move, but you create this awareness. You are so aware. You don't just inhale. You're very conscious of the smell, the odor. You don't just talk, you think, because as a man thinketh, so he will become. You know how we say it on the show. This is the space where we come in to lean On one another's experience, to forge a positive path. Till I come your way again. Bye for now. Awesome time it has been with you on the World Cafe Podcast today. Thank you for being there. You can catch me up on my social media handles Twitter, facebook, linkedin and Instagram , all at Amakri Isoboye. Also, you can get copies of my books A Cocktail of Words, the Color of Words by HR Notebook and Hocus Focus on God on Amazon and Roving Heights online bookstores. You can also subscribe to my YouTube channel at the same address, at Amakri Issawe. I love to hear from you and how this podcast has impacted you. You can leave me a message at my email address, amakrigaribaldi at gmailcom. That is A-M-A-C-H-R-E-E-E-G-A-R-I-B-A-L-D-I . Yes, till I come your way again . Bye for now.