In Kelsey Grammer’s autobiography, So Far…, a moment of terrible tragedy sparked feelings of self-separation within the actor that he found himself unable to come to terms with. Years later he would discover some comfort within the pages of John Gunther’s Death Be Not Proud, in which an explanation arose: his inability to react in the way he thought he should, his feeling of watching himself from afar, was not something to feel guilty of, but merely a trait of an artistic personality. “In everything we do,” Grammer reflected, “each of us are two.”
Our staff decided this would be the quote to launch our website with because it provides an honest, straight-forward look into the mind of a creative. The message Grammer pulled from his experience is truthful in the fact that many of us are constantly in a second state of awareness: for writers, we chart how feelings hit us, and document changing perspectives. For actors, we note how we and the people around us react to news, and seek to convey these emotions later. For journalists, we file away people and places and situations that touch us in order to draw them together when the time is right. It is not that we are absent from life, but that we see life through a different lens: our creative lens.
And this is the world we hope to draw you, beloved reader/watcher/listener, into. A world where each of our creative selves is no less genuine; a world where art is not escapism, but just another way of seeing our realities—be they harsh or sweet.
In other words, a world where everyone has their own unique way of looking at things.
— C.M., C.Q., C.O.
