Why I Write

Expression is not limited to its commonly perceived intangibility. Expression is both intangible as in facial expressions and emotions and tangible as in writings and works of art. Expression is deeper than what is rightfully presented externally; it is not only depicted from an individual’s image, but in his concrete work.
Writing is the passion to express an individual’s representation of a certain focus. As an artist in painting, I have grown to understand that expression is not limited to the abstract. I write as do I paint to generate the ideas in my head into tangible works. Writing captures my emotions, reasoning, and thinking for feeling a certain way.
Leonardo Di Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is not only a portrait of a silk merchant’s wife - tangible, but a depiction of her enigmatic stare - intangible. In comparison, Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night - tangible, is creative nonfiction of the horrific events that took place in Europe through the eyes of a Holocaust survivor. Elie Wiesel’s purposes were not only to give the reader visual images of the horrific events or to educate about Holocaust, but to portray the reader with the sense of fear and terror that he had felt- intangible.
Regardless of genre, a fundamental of writing is creativity. Creativity is the byproduct of an active mind; it is unique in every individual. As an artist, my imaginative ability is essential in all that I do. My writings exhibit my imagination as well as my personal outlook on a subject matter. Writings are intended to be as unique as Leonardo Di Vinci’s and Elie Wiesel’s magnum opus.