Enrique Martinez Celaya
ENRIQUE MARTÍNEZ CELAYA is an artist and author who during the early part of his career also worked as a scientist. His work has been exhibited and collected by major institutions around the world. He is the Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at the University of Southern California, a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, and a Fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.
Books and discussions about creativity and the notion of the creative class tend to encourage “thinking outside the box,” a confused metaphor for original or unconventional thinking. This confusion exemplifies a common misunderstanding about what creativity might be.
Can art be meaningfully described as slow or fast? Or to put the question differently, is speed an attribute of artistic experience?