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A person’s creative process, in this case that of a poet, is developed from a youthful joy at one’s own potency and capabilities into a narrowing and limiting fixation on the question: Can I express reality in words that will outlast me?
In this hopeless attempt to pin down the moment – reality – in words, to elevate him-self beyond his increasingly strong fixation on success, renown and prestige, beyond the wish to stand out from the crowd, the poet loses track of life and himself.
He indulges in omnipotent fantasies and skids relentlessly into a crisis. In doing so, he loses all potential to act. The moment, which is filled with horror at his not being able to do anything, proves to be an opportunity. This experience provides him with an in-sight of the reality and restriction of his being. Transformed in a certain way, he evol-ves and readies himself for a new round in the cycle of life.
The action theatre group Pan.Optikum recounts this parable in surreal images. The individual figures represent the various aspects of one and the same person.
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