It's a self-portrait in the form of a carefully curated gallery of objects, and a window into the creative preoccupations that have shaped Michele's work as a designer.
Leary, who videotaped his own demise, says, "Why not?" But unlike many literary diaries, "Last Words" is rarely personal, even though the journals are an exploration in depth, and in sum, of Burroughs's personality and creative preoccupations.
"Etched in their individual works are the intimate contexts that motivate their creative preoccupations, as well as the internationalism of their individual practices.
My creative writing preoccupations are similarly concerned with the effects of formal/performative decisions in communicating or in failing to communicate one's position, identity, or view.
This is the moment in your day to extinguish day-to-day preoccupations with your creative spark.
Mr. Martins's interest in American music, new and old, has been a preoccupation of his entire creative career.
Authors need obsessions; it's their immoderate, uncontainable, sometimes irrational preoccupations that feed their creative energies.
As such they pose a whole new set of challenges to the health of our culture". Because she's an artist, Taylor's main preoccupations are with culture and creative activity, which is what makes her suspicious of heady rhetoric extolling the creative possibilities of the new technologies for appropriating, sampling and remixing cultural products.
Although his report on this "accomplished little city" is lively and evocative, it's possible that his preoccupation with the artist and the creative process distracted him from his travel writer's duty to give the reader a distinct taste of a particular spot, and somewhat distorted his judgment.
It has become a bigger problem as video game creatives have grown up and started families, a preoccupation reflected in various recent games about parenthood and absent parents, among them God of War and The Last of Us.
So it must follow that contemporary analysis of them also a creative act of sorts—similarly mirrors the circumstances and preoccupations of our own time.
