Rashid Maxwell:
Contagion of Silence

“If we could say it we would. What wants to be said is unsayable—and unthinkable too. That’s why we make music, we dance, we paint and write poetry. Language and words are for mundane things like shopping and running a country. The arts are a way to impart to each other the wordless core of experience: they are nothing short of stepping stones to the heaven hidden here on earth."

IN THIS WEEK'S guest post for The Culturium, Rashid Maxwell—writer, poet, artist, fine art lecturer, designer, art therapist, furniture maker, organic gardener and beekeeper—recounts how transcending thinking allows deeper and more meaningful creativity to shine forth, thus producing art that is authentic, timeless and imbued with wisdom.