Today, I will provide some insights taken from Led Zeppelin’s song “Over the Hills and Far Away.”
I am aware that not every text or photo I publish will appear in the posthumous album named “Mazek” published by Taschen. Nevertheless, I believe in the process. It is impossible to create a masterpiece each time. I believe that with every text I write and every photo I take, I am moving step by step in an undefined and unknown direction. Is it bad that I don’t know the goal of my artistic activity? Not at all. I don’t need to know it in order to create. Perhaps I will never know it. This awareness does not prevent me from writing another text or taking another photo of the same tree for the umpteenth time. I want to see an open road, contrary to “many, many people” as Led Zeppelin sang in one of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard, “Over The Hills And Far Away.”
And I believe that it’s our individual perspectives that make our creations unique and powerful.
Robert Plant, both as Led Zeppelin’s lead singer (often together with Jimmy Page) and as a solo artist, had sage and poetic words. The line about many people who don’t see the open road is one of them. In this case, I want to be in the minority of people who see the open road of broadly defined creation. People do not take their roads by taking one giant leap. Each journey consists of small steps, and it’s these small steps that lead to the grandest destinations.
That’s why I sometimes wonder whether today or tomorrow I would write the text of my life, or would take a photo that would become one of the greatest photographs all time ever, I do expect it to happen. I expect I will take ten thousand texts and a hundred thousand photos that will lead me somewhere. Undoubtedly, it will lead me to death, but for me, it is a creative journey that counts. For today, I will finish writing this small step, because I must sleep.
