Imagination Partnership & Possibles

not too long ago i decided i wanted to pioneer and participate in an effort to unite artisty in a free, independant, esthetic community where authorship is forfeit in order to liberate the artistic element and heighten creative accountablity; where various members of the society amalgamate and adopt projects; creating, revising, and undertaking an art together--whether it be sculpting, painting, writing, or designing. it would be known as the Imagination Partnership. well since first thinking about this, i've discovered that my parents think i'm a communist (due to the non-authorship concept), and i've also learned a little about human nature.

people are apprehensive about creating, laboring, striving, and revising something, only to never be remebered. i don't think it's a depraved disposition, i just wonder why the Church, through the ages permits/promotes this. the Church places authorship on a lofty pedestal, especially regarding Scripure, as if the holy book also made it's authors inerrant and incorruptable. understanding a specific authorship isn't altogether fatuous, for it assists dating the text, highlights doctrinal voice, and etc... but it seems the Church concentrates on these sorts of matters with excess. agian, i am not accusing the quest to create--and the upshot of recognition--to be a sin, for God created the world, and it has been assigned to us to worship, praise, and recognize him for it. and God never expereinces a sensation of fear, but he does know jealousy--perfectly balanced by his holiness.

when one creates (this usually being a deliberate process), one resembles the Creator, but due to sin it becomes difficult for people to deal with going unnoticed (not recieving due accolade). it becomes especially difficult when one understands, "no one will ever know i worked on this project. no one will ever know this was my creation!" unfortunately the Imagination Partnership (which has exsisted for all the ages of the Earth, though not conceptualizing in my mind until eighteen months ago) called me to join as a member not an entity; a partner not a priority; a fellow not an ultra-unique-post-modern personality. a sound application of the New Criticism might be applied more broadly to the entire realm of art, and applied even to the extent that expressing one's authorship might become supurfluous. the main benefit, aside from a creative community, is the freedom to confess, "i'm only a visitor on this Earth, a sojourner, and what i created--we created; this is left for others to enjoy, without concern for me." but that blessing is the great obstacle of membership and also the great confusion as to leadership. maybe i should just hire some Bolsheviks.

because Imagination Partnership trips off the tongue like a felon, i have been considering an aptly abreviated term or name; something besides the I.P. Society. the article, the, should precede each of the following possible names: "somethings", "googles", "vanguards", "vocabs", "barelys", "utters", "bobbys", "virtuosi", "columns", "gettings", "edits", "scrupulous", "endings", "effings", "amators", "cadres", "periods", "colons", "stopings", "postals", "suckers", "locos", "commys", "indepentant unified society and art guild", "storys", or "chapters". i personally like "amators", "locos" and "colons". any insight, possibles, or revisionary ideas would be appreciated. it's a work in progress... (photo by: Elizabeth Dozier Steedly)