Question

"these words I write keep me from total madness." what does this quote makes you think about?

Answer 1

"these words I write keep me from total madness." what does this quote makes you think about?

“These words I write keep me from total madness”, a quote from Bukowski, is what first came to mind when I read about Jon Sarkin. Although his is surely a visual version of these words (of course the writer put it better than any artist could).

Sarkin was a chiropractor, who subsequent to battling with a jolting commotion in his mind for a considerable length of time, went to a neurosurgeon who found a vein was contacted up against his sound-related nerve, and amid medical procedure to adjust it, he had a stroke, which totally changed his identity.

"Thinking things through – in the case of getting dressed or perusing the daily paper – was relatively inconceivable. Rather, his psyche drifted, so nothing was ever completed: his hair was half-brushed, discussions were left hanging. The most agitating part for Sarkin was the feeling that there were no channels, no way for his mind to back everything off and arrange the world into significant pictures and scenes"

He was pulled back and gloomy, yet began to make workmanship, compulsivley as an approach to process and sincerely work through his life, "set free from the imperatives of typical thinking, Sarkin's cerebrum refocused on the arbitrary subtle elements of life, blending memory and feeling, at that point refining his encounters into words and images,"* to the point where he would leave the supper table, to go draw something that had flown into his head, disappointing his significant other and youngsters, who didn't comprehend this new indiscreet need to make.

He obsessively made these drawings for years, created through doodlings and fragments of thoughts and favourite quotes, eventually submiting them to the New Yorker, which bought them up, which turned into illustrations into other magazines and galleries. I went over him in a Guardian article, extremely a with the exception of from a book destined to be distributed, Shadows Bright As Glass, by Amy Ellis Nutt, that recounts his adventure from his life as chiropractor to one of a craftsman. In the book he makes reference to "he felt as though it was one monster trick, that he was taking cash simply to accomplish something he really wanted to do. Throughout the following six years, his ability extended, his craft turned out to be more far reaching and his prosperity augmented. Continuously, the desire to make expended him."

He had to create, there was no other way. I want to say as if there was no choice, but, as a creator myself, I know there is no choice. I have to create, its a way I deal with emotions, unspoken/ unthought words, how I bring all that I need to emotionally deal with on a daily basis to the surface and look them in the eye, before tossing them away.