Gifford asked the question in response to my last entry: "So how do you relate this to creating an "inner Space" for yourself and your character and then extending it to a "world space" for the audience? It appears counter-productive."
It may appear counter-productive but it is not. It should be taken in the context of an organic and holistic approach. It is a beautiful question to ask. I feel it is the essential question in any true organic process. The short answer is probably - time. But it is more than that of course. Time, attention, a balance of direct and indirect action and possibly most importantly intuition. In essence the quality that Gifford is referring to is Presence. Being present with yourself, your attention and your process is the quality that facilitates the awareness, development and appreciation for this space.
More than that it is the understanding that relationships cannot exist without space. The space between things is as important as things themselves as it is the space between them that enables them. Objects, thoughts, images, people, planets, molecules are all non identifiable without the space that surrounds them. Space is a connecting tissue. It can be quiet and still or vast or brief or rushing through. And it is always connecting to an infinite. In our world, space is infinite and in itself a metaphor for eternalness as much as eternalness is a metaphor for space.
Creating and maintaining an inner space is a means of attending to the process at hand (in this case developing a character) and allowing this process to deepen, refine and attune us to the matter at hand. It is essentially a matter of allowing rather than making. Creating the inner space opens us to a collective unconscious space where we implicitly connect to that which is, and that which is more than we are. This is reflected in us as much as we are reflected in it.
From the inner space as it connects to the world space we witness and enjoy the creative process of that which was not made manifest become that which is. Hence the process of creativity. Hence the enjoyment of the creative space.
