22 Sep 2025
The Contradiction Spiral
Art is full of contradictions. We want freedom, but we crave structure. We chase originality, but we borrow constantly. We want to be understood, yet sometimes we make things deliberately obscure.
I’ve stopped seeing these contradictions as problems. They’re the essence of creativity. To make art is to live in the tension between opposites, to move back and forth between them without needing to resolve them.
The same applies to life. We want stability, yet seek change. We want closeness, yet need independence. Holding both truths at once doesn’t make us hypocrites, it makes us human.
Maybe the point isn’t to resolve contradictions, but to recognize them as the spiral that keeps us moving forward.