Sometimes I come across folks that give me an immediate, uncanny sense that I’m looking into a mirror the moment they begin sharing their unique approach to the creative arts. Rick Rubin’s perspective regarding creativity, intuition, and connection to source, or God, aligns so well with my own, I’m awestruck. He begins discussing his alternate view of the word indefensible, usually associated with something negative that’s incapable of being justified or excused according to Merriam-Webster. As artists, we flourish once we break through boundaries and question the status quo. We’re never interested in fitting into some preconceived mold of conventional society. We’re always curious and following our muse eventually becomes effortless. I don’t design or write anymore. I channel.
Rick Rubin shares that “indefensible is a funny word because it’s a, it’s really pejorative word. It’s a strong pejorative. If something is indefensible it’s not just bad. Indefensible is really extreme. I’m thinking that in making art, indefensible is actually a good thing, maybe not only a good thing, maybe a necessary thing. That you take things to the extreme that are indefensible. I can’t tell you why. I can’t tell you why because it’s beyond reason. So I’m, I’m in that camp of that reason, reason is a, is a tiny sliver of how decisions get made. And I, I would be much more in the camp of intuition or maybe some sort of a, guidance from the universe. Openness to being guided by something more, something, the creative force of the universe. You could call it God. I call it God. You’re not required to.”
“We’re making things forever. We’re making things that are truly personal to us. And if it’s truly personal to us, if someone doesn’t get it, that’s, they just don’t get it yet. Or maybe they’ll never get it, and it’s fine because I know this is my diary entry. Can someone else read your diary entry and tell you it’s wrong? It’s not good enough? Or it’s not true? It’s not how you see the world?
Everything we make is a diary entry. Everything we make is our personal, true expression. The reason we’re saying it is to show you see it like that, we see it like this or I see it like this. This is how I see it. And with that information you can say ‘ah, I never considered that before. There’s more. The world is bigger than I thought. It’s not just more of the same.’”