One rule- No rule...

The one rule in art is that there are no rules or more to the point, rules are made to be broken. This is the history of its development through out the ages. Centuries ago in European Art in particular, music, art and writing had to be submitted to being scrutinized by the dictates of the Church. There were 'Religious Laws' that decided how these disciplines were orchestrated and composed. There were reformations and counter reformations that pulled and stretched the meaning of what that meant. Up until the 19th century, only certain notes could be played in music relating to a spirituality of fixed laws and formulas. As individuality and the search for the political advancement in a more democratic system gave way to more personal liberties, this began to change. On the key of a scale only certain notes were allowed as they were considered closer to God. Similar principles were applied in poetry, writing, the visual arts as well as sculpture and architecture. Individual and political advocates of this time sought greater liberties. With that, there was the advancement toward change such as the French and American revolutions as well as the growth of the Dutch 'merchant' classes away from the aristocracy. Modernity in the advent of new scientific discoveries brought radical changes of how art was created for greater creative freedoms.
I have stayed close to formal and fundamental principles of how the universe is made but it is expanding and open to changes with new discoveries. We are all co- creators with a higher understanding that help to formulate this change - the micro of the greater macro universe, man and God as one. This is an ancient philosophy that I am in concordance with. It is important to stay open and alert to these ever changing realities with a respect for some of our past discoveries. The search for 'truth' in ancient times may be seen as metaphor and has some validity as there will come a time when our 'truth' in this generation may be looked on as obsolete by our successors but we are all a part of unlocking some of the mysteries held within it.
Creativity and expression as part of an individual and universal undestanding may emcompass the light and the dark; harmony and dissonance with all the shades within as this is what our history and humanity has been and is...