The Importance of the creative process in life

(by Carlos Martínez García-Tenorio)

Madrid April 23rd 2003

The process is an instrument as intangible as the feelings that emerge from a love poem or an expressionist painting. However it is of vital importance to realize that you advance in one direction as consequence of the sum of irrational acts that condemn our existence.

This sentence, long in some cases, can be a suffering that justifies the work of the Author.

When we are born we are surrounded most of the time by a happiness that is not more than the soul projection of the rest of the beings before our defenseless little body.

But, once our parents abandon us to our fate, everything turns into a jungle of a mess of concrete and steel, trash TV, impossible loves, cheap cockiness, short phrases full of contradictions and insipid laughs… This step from adolescence to maturity is only the beginning of a journey of no return .

Most of you have come to an art school because you need to capture your dream states, or to color an uncertain life full of bohemian concerns. A leaf that falls from a tree in autumn, a sad song that is broadcasted on the radio, an argument with your partner, staring into the multicolored crowd of a department store, the irony of a Billy Wilder movie, the ray of sunshine blinds your eyes in spring or a simple discussion with the teacher you anger the most; It's those little things that have the power to enrich the creative process. You have to get rid of all the false myths of that designer that appears in the fashion magazine and other stereotypes that are nothing more than marketing products.

To many of you those will seem deaf words but, I insist once again, the development of your aptitudes must be a constant exploration of that which has no name. You have to create your own language. Art, in all its forms and conditions, is nothing more than a constant search for a universal style or language.

Don't ever think that because they give you a designer degree, a chapter of your life will be finished. The creative process has a common thread that you have begun to cultivate at E.S.D.I. And no one knows where it will end!

You will have to overcome a multitude of obstacles, gray days and disagreements with colleagues, but I assure you that this stay is worth it. All together you can move the mountain.

Although I write these lines in absolute loneliness, I hope that they reach your hearts. I feel my verbiage ornate and baroque

A hug to all students of E.S.D.I.