305. Reality Fiction
When I tell people I write
fiction, but it's all real they look at me cross eyed because it's a
contradiction in itself; it can't be fiction if it is factual, it can't be one
if it is the other.
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| The Reality Fiction Process. |
Reality is made up of people and
houses, mainly- and other things beside.
Put it down to a lack of
imagination- but I'm not capable of inventing things that don't exist. Either in writing or in painting, everything
I paint, everything I write has its origin somewhere.
An image is processed through the
memory to take on another vision
Maybe the house doesn't look the
same as the one I used to live in, maybe the windows were different, the
chimney another shape but it reminds me of the house I remember. The house of my childhood processed through my
memory takes on another vision, it has a life of its own- consequently it is no
longer factual, it is fictional.
The mind processes the factual and recreates
it into a new reality.
I'm hardly the first one to write
Reality Fiction. And I'm not talking
about films or books based on real events like "The Great Bank
Robbery" or the various film titles on Pope Paul John II- they are not
fictional. Nor am I talking about books
or films that say any resemblance to real life people is purely accidental,
they are fictional, even if based on fact.
Our mind draws out events from the past, of
which some, are more clear than others.
I am talking about events that
have existed and have remained maybe or maybe not in our subconscious and we
draw them out from the past to form a present image. It is this process of drawing out events from
the past and recreate them in the present that I call the Reality Fiction process. It is factual because it draws
out from life events that have occurred.
It is fictional because, this bringing into focus a faded or not so
faded image from the past is forming a new shape of that image, giving it
a brand new reality, a life of its own.
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| The Reality Fiction Process. |
The mind draws out an image from
the past, gives it a new reality, a life of its own- transforming fact into fiction.
