“The only way people can really describe pain is to objectify it.”
Pain is essential for creativity since we are forced to take our imagination and interpretation of the pain we experience and assign it to something we can relate to or have physically experienced. Art is something that is always physically experienced, whether it is music or a marble sculpture. And as I said it at the start of the semester when we had to define the purpose and meaning of art – it is a way to deliver a message across though a visual or acoustic presentation. Thus, in order for artist to create something symbolically powerful and that we as spectators can feel too, the artist must take their painful emotions in this case, and make them into something tangible, essentially objectify the pain.
“When people forge tools or build things, they are often trying to alleviate discomfort. But they first must define the discomfort.”
In the context of art, and how I mentioned before that it can serve as a method to deliver a message: Discomfort can either be physical or emotional. People can feel oppressed, threatened, or just feel left out. By using art as a tool do express their emotions and perhaps even support those in a similar situation, who are so withered away from their struggles that they do not bother trying to seek help, artists can help alleviate the discomfort. One of the best examples of this can be songs that speak to people with certain issues in life. Any kind of change in motion of an object is only present if there is an external and unbalanced force acting on it – Newton’s first law. This can easily be elaborated onto pain and how it’s a source of inspiration for artists.
