Intent
The ideal story doesn’t find its elegance in the story as much as it does the creation of the world in which the story exists. Worldbuilding is the most important aspect of art in any medium. All art tells a story but the story’s potential to be successful is reliant upon the world in which it is being told. Any great album or film completely immerses you in a universe outside of the one in which you’re viewing it from.
It’s for this reason that film is one of the most powerful mediums. It’s much easier to create a believable world when you’re able to present a world that appeals to more than one sense. The marriage of a soundtrack and visuals is powerful enough to create a suspension of disbelief that allows you to fall deeper and deeper into the story you’re being told.
An architect’s greatest success is designing a structure that looks otherworldly yet fits perfectly into our reality.
A musician’s greatest success is creating a body of work that sounds unlike anything we’ve ever heard before but sounds like it always existed.
A great director is able to take 90 minutes of your time and immerse you in a world that directly pulls on the strings of your reality.
There’s a measured level of… maybe quirkiness that exists when one finds mastery in worldbuilding. A fingerprint if you will.
Much in the way that the Fibonacci sequence exists all throughout our universe, a great architect, a great worldbuilder leaves similar fingerprints all throughout the worlds they create.
Our creator and the Fibonacci sequence. Tarantino and Apple Cigarettes. Pharrell and his four-count drop.
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I think the God in us all is this desire to create worlds. To create life. In all that we do as humans, creation is the basis. Everything we’ve ever known about anything is a story rooted in the world we’ve collectively built throughout our existence.
I feel that we’re all placed here to show one another the beauty of human existence.
If you pay attention, you can easily view all the beauty that God has laid before us. And when you’re able to see all of that and you’re conscious of it, you can spread that awareness to others. We all begin to see the beauty in our lives and the worlds that we’ve created and it stands to create a collective reality that’s even more beautiful.
Taking a moment to reflect on what we consider great art, you find that there’s a correspondence between the spiritual and the individual.
Something about witnessing great artistic expression seems divine. Maybe the divinity resides in the transportation to a new world that comes along with great art. The transportation to a world that is defined by a different dialect of a language we all understand. A language we didn’t even know we understood.
We all understand beauty, but it seems we understand it in our own terms until we realize others understand it the same way we do.
Somewhere in this thought process I find deeper understanding in the idea of God creating us in his image. If we’re created in his image, we should be determined to create in the same way he does. Building worlds.
But what do I know?
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The more we examine our universe, the more we find things that seem to be a micro or macrocosm of what’s identifiable on the most basic levels.
Infinity repeating.
Everything can be explained in a properly built world until it can’t. When you can no longer explain it, you find yourself at the creator.
You could explain why something is beautiful but at some point the explanation can only be explained by the creator. Their intention to create a complete world.
There’s also this instance where everything perfectly aligns and transcends your five senses. The experience is no longer one that can be detailed using your five senses.
It seems that beauty is such a deep concept. Time and experience have a major impact on whether one can appreciate beauty. But definite beauty, timeless beauty is valued regardless of the human condition.