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“There Is No Blue Without Yellow.”

Featured By Creative Point-On

By Caitlin Du

Within the creatives’ mind. Visual Artist & Graphic Designer Caitlin Du animates the color symbolism and business philosophy of Creative Point-On in this suggestive comic inspired by the genius of Vincent Van Gogh and the meaning of the solar plexus and throat chakras. Featuring our founders, Business Strategist & Artistic Director Daniela Pavan and our Editor in Chief & Media Expert Tommaso Cartia. Ready, Set, Imagine!

About Caitlin Du

Caitlin Du is a visual artist specializing in illustrations and comics. Caitlin was born and raised in Beijing, China. In 2018, her work was exhibited in the Metamorphosis Charity Exhibition in the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in the 798 art district. Caitlin arrived in New York City in 2019 to study illustration at Parsons School of Design. During her time in the US, her art has been featured on the 12th Street Journal and the Collaborative Clarinet in Concert Exhibition between Mannes School of Music, New York Youth Symphony and Parsons School of Design.

Artist Statement

“I work across mediums and specialize in illustration and comics. My work consists of many symbologies, inspired by the hazy style of the Chinese misty poetries. The subject of my art is usually myself, ranging from my stories, my emotions, to my identity and my culture.”

Follow her: www.caitlindu.com

Me & You, A Sunday Morning Of February 2021

Featured By Tommaso Cartia

Open this poem/love letter from our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia sent to all the lovers out there celebrating this St. Valentine’s Day 2021 in all of its love’s forms.

Me & You, A Sunday Morning of February 2021

It is not a Holiday
Until Billie caresses this Sunday
With the sweet roughness
Of her “Body & Soul”
Outside the window
Winter solmizates
A snow’s symphony
A concert of ice and lights
Embracing and salvific.
The world is violently shaking
Sneezing blood, death, and confusion
We are prisoners of our hugging desire
But today you are with me
“Body & Soul”
Suspended
In this house of red brick walls
Warming and fragrant
Like freshly baked bread
A house full of music and future
Of candles lit up to our dreams.
We are a reassuring parcel
To be opened next Christmas
A lovers’ music box
That plays this fragmented present
With new harmonies
Audacious, adventurous, experimental.
Visions of us getting out of the house
Unmasked
Hand in hand
To go embrace of little wriggles of happiness
Our friends tonight at dinner.
A connection of loving sense
Some wine, some laughs
Some singing, some foolishness
A melting of bodies, voices, sensations
A glimpse into eternity
And then the present, the ordinary
The dreams of the trip we plan for next summer
More dreams
…
“I can’t wait to go to her concert…”
“…she is great, though she’ll never be like Billie…”
“promise we’ll see each other next week, good night!”
…
Later the love, me and you at home
The love
Unmasked
And the tomorrow gets trepidant with trivialities
Once again
The necessity of living as much as possible
Before nothing will be, again, impossible.
Me and you, Billie Holiday, and a Sunday morning of February 2021
Outside the window
The pandemic is sour
Flaking down
Even more violently than this snow’s tempest
But it will subside, will melt, and settle
Flash up once again and for all
And be swollen by the darkness of time.
It will leave us dry, rested, rejuvenated
Full of love for the days ahead.

Me, you, Billie Holiday, and a Sunday morning of February 2022.

It will be so, beautiful.

Tommaso Cartia

The Creative Bridge with Daniela – November 2019, The Enlightenment Month

on November 22, 2019November 22, 2019 By Tommaso Cartia

Our Artistic Director Daniela Pavan discusses the topic of Light and Enlightenment from a business and a creative ideas development point of view with our host of the month, Award-Winning Author, Playwright, and novelist David James Parr.

“I honestly believe that creativity cannot be switched on and off, like a light switch. It’s a process that requires us to become comfortable with making mistakes because it includes failed attempts, it requires us to take courage and try, it’s a test and learn approach. And this creative anxiety is borne out of a society that expects perfection, that expects creatives to generate ideas quickly. This same society though teaches us that there are only right or wrong answers and leaves very little space to experiment and test ideas. Think about Thomas Edison. Its invention of the light bulb in 1879 came out as the result of tons of experiments. According to The Time, he tested more than 6,000 possible materials before finding the one that worked, the carbonized bamboo. Also, he made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. And when a reporter asked, “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” Edison replied, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” Edison kept persevering without giving up and gave birth to a disruptive invention for those times, which still is part of our current standards of living. What do you think David?”

“I totally agree with you Daniela. The creative process takes time: You have to accept that sometimes you’re not going to have the time, or the energy, to deliver on an idea. I’ve had what I thought were light bulb moments on the subway on my commute to work in the morning, but by the time I’ve been crammed inside a subway car, and had the train delayed between stops, and the air conditioning to go out, and then to spill out into a station and climb up the stairs, and so on—the idea gets lost. So it’s important to just relax and breathe and know that another idea will come, or maybe that same idea will come back. The writer Jamaica Kincaid once said—and I don’t remember the exact quote—but it was that sometimes writers need to just walk around and feel sad or emotional or go to dark places in their brain in order to illuminate some real truths…”

For the full conversation, listen to the Creative Bridge Episode