kismet

 

Her name is Kismet. An unusual and I think beautiful name, and a word that today has me contemplating its role in my becoming a photographer. Was it my destiny all along to do this work or was I born only with the deep desire for self-expression regardless of the medium chosen?

I wonder just how much art/music/literature created is the result of kismet encounters between artistic individuals. People who meet in just the right place, at just the right time, who cause something dormant within the other to “wake up”. There seems to be an especially synergistic quality to the intersection of two artists’ paths. And I really believe that when certain individuals come together they in fact do become greater than the sum of their parts. Their creative endeavors lifted to new levels because of what their connection has inspired.

Were they brought together solely for the purpose of creating art? Or is art simply the succulent fruit of kismet encounters?

 
~Cynthia