“The Marriage of Confusion and creativity is the beginning of new life. We start from places we have never been allowed to imagine before, and out of them, we can also imagine new conclusions.  It is the dream state of the soul, reaching for new heights, understanding, and insights into what it might mean to be alive in different, more productive, and provocative ways. Disk Ikeda says, “You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new loves for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.”  — Joan Chittister, Between the Dark and the Daylight.

— I took these flower photos to capture the collision of confusion and creativity that puzzles many creative people. These photos are devoted to them.