Xawiya Studios’ Abhinav Sinha on the enduring tension between creative tools, authorship, and how creativity is perceived.
If I were asked to identify a single, enduring conflict in creative practice – one that has persisted across decades, disciplines, and technological shifts – it would be this: the constant tension between a creative’s relationship with a tool and the way that same tool is perceived by the outside world.
I have lived through enough cycles of innovation to recognise the pattern. Each generation inherits a new instrument. Photography, film, digital compositing, non-linear editing, game engi
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