The Art of Seeing What Drives Us
Have you ever felt the pull of something you can’t name, an undercurrent steering your choices, your words, your moods, long after the moment that first sparked it? That’s the echo of being at work, what drives us without us our knowing. The emotional energy of past events reverberates through your life until you notice it, and choose differently. In my new artwork – see below – I used an AI music generator to turn my poem The Echo of Being into a song, which I illustrated with imagery created with an AI art generator and then turned into video. In this piece I ask: “Do you sense the echo of being reverberating through time?Past actions following us through life,And propelling us into the future,Their emotional energy remaining,Like ghosts of possibilities.” Those lines point to a simple truth: none of us emerges from childhood untouched. Maybe it was a harsh…