One Apple A Day #902 - a mystery
Yesterday, while I was wasting some time scrolling through stuff on my phone, I've been capture by an interview with an Italian writer and comic book artist. His name is Gipi.
It's a beautiful interview with many insights into his creative process and his life. Two things that, like with many artists, are deeply connected.
There is a part that really resonates with me. Gipi shares that what he loves the most about his work is that the outcome is beyond his control when he draws.
He said [translation is mine] that he "witnesses, at times, the manifestation of a mystery: that of seeing something happening that you had not foreseen, that you did not know, that it is not your ego that determines and that indeed can exist precisely because your ego has vanished for a while. In other words, I am only satisfied with something I have done when it seems to me that it is not my work."
I know that feeling. Sometimes I sit down before the keyboard with a clear idea of what I want to write, and then something magical happens. My thoughts take a direction I haven't foreseen, and in the end, I'm left with something unexpected. Words that I didn't know I have in me.
All I have to do is to trust that the magic will happen.
It's not easy, though. When the pressure to deliver kicks in, the ego craves control, and the magic is gone.
But when it happens, it's pure bliss.
The interview, in Italian, is on the HuffingtonPost Italia.