Bloom of the knight: Finding the soul's silk through the lives of transformational artists

Using heuristic and artistic-creative research methodology, this production thesis is an effort to delve into the place great artists can bring us to through their lives and art. My film, the production portion of this thesis, is a personal reflection of that effort. The film illustrates what may be activated when one goes into one's own "home," led to this place by these artists, using the body and the material world as the beginning and end of the journey.;This thesis contends that great artists delve, both consciously and unconsciously, into their own and the culture's darkness in an effort to inspire transformation within the culture. In this way, these "transformational" artists convey the very essence of humanity to people; they bring people home, back to their human selves so that they may move forward from that creative ground.