The Creative Process

Illustration by Sonam Kaloti

By Sonam Kaloti, Arts Editor


I begin to conjure the worth we see, beyond our eyes

past shows, the stars, to where only darkness lies.

the edge—

is it real? how does it stop?

can we make it beyond?

then tell me, if we can’t, what is it all expanding from?

let’s say we opened the opportunity to reach the edge

let’s say we go past it

let

us

say

that there is absolutely nothing, but

by now we know that

nothing, in terms, is something, so long as

we have a word for it, so long as

we know what it is.

so, let’s say we make it there

and with despair

come to terms with only blank space, though

with nothing we can make something

to create something with our minds and mold it from nothing

create something that doesn’t exist, a nonexistent colour, per se,

but we, as a species, cannot conjure up anything new.


there is a limit



creativity is not infinite.