![]() Everybody wants to know: when was that moment, what was that thing, and how does it tie into a birthday party where you didn’t get the cake you wanted when you were six, or whatever it is. It isn’t about these rosebud moments that I think have become easy currency. ![]() That’s kind of glorious and fun.Ī painting would come into the brain of a painter, or a musical progression would just appear in the mind of a composer. We have to allow that serendipity of creation sometimes-that sometimes you just come up with something, and there is no tidy origin story for something. I don’t know if it started with giving every superhero an origin story, but we so hurt the cause of art if it’s just the end product of some personal evolution or therapy or catharsis. To just make stuff and do things.” This feels prescriptive in a way, especially in an era where I think we have a tendency to mythologize creation, to explain away how and why art comes from someone.ĭave Eggers: Yeah, it’s a terrible thing. ![]() ![]() Sam Fragoso: In The Museum of Rain you write, “If we believe there’s a dramatic origin story for every human endeavor, we deprive our species of the ability to simply conjure an idea. ![]()
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