Recently, the city of San Francisco created a huge art installation on the bridge bridge composed of lights that randomly light up as different elements of the environment pass by. Wind, water and cars all work together to create a beautiful collage on the wires of the bridge. The director of this art installation used C++ to code the lights to light up in special ways. This art project brings us to the next subject in our writers block seminar that revolves around how creative projects can be likened towards bridges. For example, the road is smooth then all of a sudden the painting of Dogs Playing Poker by C.M. Coolidge comes along and smooths out the road enough for us to continue on without concerns or questions. Maybe it was that you were a poker player or had disdain for them, either way there are many way’s a creative project can smooth out the road for people.
Bridges are not just like creative projects in the way they can take part in our lives but also their process is, first you find the materials, then the people to work on it and even an architect as the artist and then lastly the inspiration. Generally, it solves a problem. This is just a general relation that creative projects and bridges have in common. In order to enjoy a creative project such as a book, building, sculpture or painting, you get to have your own personal reaction as created in real time by the artist. In addition, a creative project is something that many people can enjoy but was not created in an instant.
A religious friend of mine once said “God can create miracles in an instant yet it takes hundreds of men to build the boats that travel under a bridge”. Creative projects and even programming projects have less to do with the idea of god because we expend our energy in what we should hope for to be something worthwhile at the least. In general, creative projects bring value to us.The age of enlightenment began in the 17th-18th centuries and expanded from Europe to the Americas. Descartes said during this time “I think, therefore I am”. If you consider the bridge a project that gets us over rough roads with understanding and clarity. People who see the project in its entirety, we hope will move on with a new sense of confidence and exuberance. The really great part of working on a creative project is that we have now- dare I say- evolved past the individuality of early ideas of individuality of the age of enlightenment and we are able share our creative senses. Through hard work or even accidental foundations we can come together to enjoy what we have created.
