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I guess I'm a synthovator. Even if that's nt a valid word.

I love this. I think I'm closest to a synthesizer, as much as I've always wished I was an innovator. And my tastes are just too disparate to be a perfecter (of any one particular style). I really love these classifications. They show that there's merit in any approach to art. I'd be curious to see how other people describe themselves, and whether or not they feel their approaches are conscious. I'd say mine is not. My favorite artists have always been the innovators: Joyce, Kubrick, Kaufman, Rembrandt, Chopin, Radiohead, etc., but I feel compelled to draw from each of them, instead of forging my own style. I guess that puts me firmly in that synthesizer class. Smart kid you've got there, Scott. Is he the one who originally told you to go into the story?

For writing I am an innovator. I'm rewriting a sci-fi manuscript and have begun a crime drama (at the Annunciation part - cool timing). In both cases I am trying to go somewhere those genres haven't gone. For painting, I'm a synthesizer, mainly Pollock and Duchamp. I was stuck on something in my sci-fi story around Thanksgiving so I shelved it and painted five pieces to try an free the id. It worked in a different way than I expected, as I wrote 13 pages of the screenplay and six more of a meeting the mentor scene.

This is also classified as Analogic, Anamorphic, and Anagogical thinking.

Actually, Ben, it's the other son (Luke) who told me -- when he not yet three! -- "Go into the story and find the animals." It's humbling to be surrounded by such intelligent family members...

I'm definitely a synthesizer (beep-boop-beep), so I make sure my sources are as varied and interesting as possible... and I definitely make sure I understand what it is I like, what works, and what doesn't in the ingredients before I put them in. And if I can, I want to give the raw ingredients some spice and an interesting little twist, that way if someone else put in the same pieces, they wouldn't get the same results as I would.

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