Art-Making Machine

Over very large spans of time
We can say that creativity is conserved
That the universe becomes more creative

And out of that stage of creative facundity
More creativity is manifest

From that point of view
The universe is almost what we would have to call
An art-making machine

An engine
For the production of
Ever more novel forms
Of connectedness

And out of this arises implicitly
A set of principles that we can then apply to
The human artist

Nature's creativity is obviously the wellspring
Of human creativity
We emerge out of nature
Almost as its finest work of art
This notion of the artist as mystical journeyer
As one who goes into a world
Unseen by others
And then returns
To tell them of it
Was pretty much lost

There is a new permission
To explore the irrational
This really is the bridge back
To the archaic, shamanic function
Of the artist
Permission to explore the irrational