ISSUE TWELVE (threads that bind) An excerpt from The Creative Thread BY Andréa Tchacos “And who’s to say a good idea should stop at one worthy creator? An artist’s job is to give an idea shape. If the idea is strong enough, urgent enough, of-the-time-enough, it is the job of multiple artists. ... Whether you find charm in science or spirituality, there is surely something magic in the notion that we are adapted for creative revelation. That your idea might also appear in the mind of another does not diminish its value. It is part of the creative thread that binds us, billions of thinkers—not heroes, but no less miraculous—pushed forward by the knowledge of our ances- tors, with all the potentiality of imagining in unison.” Image: dialog 2 by rudolf bonvie, 1973 courtesy of priska pasquer gallery