By Silkcuts 17 Comments
Driving and Creation, is there a relationship? I have wondered this for a while. It could be just cultural things preventing desire to drive, such as the Cab culture in England and the Subway system in New York are two examples of how driving is not needed to survive. Alan Moore and Spike Lee are two examples where I can think of where they are acclaimed creators and have no passion to drive a car. Without a need to drive, those two creators spend more time creating then allowing a car to be an extension of themselves. Others to the list Jack Kirby and Ray Bradbury.
This concept of having a car being an extension was made clear to me while reading Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. He brought up the concept that us people are self-centered people. So we create life to objects and personify them. It is natural. Then there are things like crutches we uses as extensions of legs. People use objects of extensions of themselves, it is natural, a car is no different.
Could this self centered nature be what holds most people back from being great creators? With guys like Alan Moore and Spike Lee not projecting themselves in objects like cars, could their minds be wired differently? If so, how? Could it be that their views are not self-centered and this is why they have a different view of the world?
Can anyone confirm if Tim Burton can drive? Grant Morrison? Salvador Dali? H.R. Giger? Just food for thought.