The Art of Structure
There are rules to and for everything. It’s how the universe finds order in its chaos, pushing everything to a particular pattern even though they all have unique paths and qualities. And as we know, art is not exempted from being governed by set rules.
For example, a piece of writing would be considered a poem if it embodies a certain freshness of language, some figures of speech, musicality, style and form differentiating it from prose and the ability to evoke the right emotions.
It would have been easy for a writer to declare any writing of theirs a poem even though it isn’t. But it isn’t simple like that because of the rules governing the writing of poems. Hence, the making of art is a road similar to everyone.
But if art—whether painting, poetry, or music―is a means for soulful expression, inspiration and exploring creativity, why should it have rules? Why should anything form a boundary around what would need lots of creativity and imagination? Who says what is expected of it and what is not?
A certain architect is given the clearance to surprise his customer with a unique, creative house design. To do this, he soaks into hundreds, if not thousands, of house design images to muscle up his imagination. He comes up, finally, with a unique style and is proud of it. However, his design is rooted in his accumulated knowledge of…
