"I love spring water and wild air, and not the manufacture of the chemist's shop. I see in a moment, on looking into our new Dial, which is the wild poetry, and which the tame, and see that one wild line out of a private heart saves the whole book."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Feeling is what I like in art, not craftiness and the hiding of feelings." - Jack Kerouac
During the 1950s, "first thought, best thought," became the mantra of the Beat writers. They wanted to capture a direct line to the subconscious through what flows in the mind. The Beats went after the wild line.
Wild, free, single lines evolve into a work of art. A sketch results from glimpsed nuances. It all started with the wild sketches on cave walls.
The first thought taps something deeper. It emerges out of the edges of imagination. Energy arises from that first effort. the spirit of a writer arises in a quick sketch. Depth of feeling, spiritual depth, emotional stage of the moment all spill out.
Free form art changed writing, jazz, and painting.
Jackson Pollock sought the wild image. Thelonious Monk went after the wild edge in jazz.
The first impression arises to set a stage.
Go wilding today.
Sit in front of a window and write what you see within the frame of the window.
Notice what passes in the corners of your eyes.
Let the wild enter; the flash of a black thing will introduce another thought.
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