Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields. People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I've become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortable we are expressing ourselves.
Growth is only possible as a product of history.
Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That's what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present.