MURTYMUSE

  CREATIVITY AND TRANSLATION               In its etymological sense, poetry means ‘the art of making’ and in that basic sense all creativity has poetry behind it. My point in today’s conversation is about a particular kind of creativity which is ‘translation’. And I would like to begin with the premise that all creativity itself can be likened to the process of ‘translation’. When we create art, in its broadest sense, we actually ‘translate’ an idea, an emotion or an experience into a concrete form in a particular genre of art – a poem, a story, a play or various other forms of art – music, painting, sculpture or whatever. When we create in art, the creative process itself is a process of translation of something into some form of art in a particular genre . Translation basically means change – but it implies both the process and the product, both the process of change, and the end-product. It is a process with a ...