So I've always been fascinated by the relationship between creativity and madness, right? like Timothy Leary famously said, in order to use your head, you've got to go out of your mind. And this of course implies a kind of willingness to sort of go to unknown places, to visit mental landscapes that are alien. Willingness to sort of leave ones's comfort zone, To decondition one's thinking, once reflexive responses to stimuli; to go to other realms of the mind. And catalyzing the imagination is like diving headfirst towards the unknown. And there's always a potential of getting hurt. You know, it is said that the mystic and the madman are swimming in the same waters. But the mystic, he's like an artist surfing it down. He's bringing back visions. His brain back souvenirs from these ecstatic spaces and places. But you know at the end of the day the artist does become depleted. The artist is sacrificing part of himself to bring back those visions to create a phase change in the consciousness of society. He leaves the consensus trance. He leaves our cultural operating systems. He shows us different reality tunnels that gives us a sense of perspective. Us as consumers of art, we pay money for them to take us two spaces that we cannot go by ourselves. These are heroes. These are cultural luminaries, They are mad men that somehow have been able to just sort of coax and domesticate their madness towards useful end. You know this idea of of always having functional output. To go to Oz,  to tumble down that rabbit hole, and somehow return to tell the tale.

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