James Baldwin The Creative Process Analysis

Tucked away in a dusty corner of my room is a brightly illustrated children’s book about the name my parents gave me. Although it is no longer my name, on the final page is a truth that will always be a part of who I am. Scrawled in bright orange crayon, next to the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is the word, “artist.” I was five years old.

My understanding of what it means to be an artist has evolved since then, but what remains is my desire to create. Over the course of my undergraduate studies I discovered that being an artist goes beyond the act of creating, it is a way of engaging with the world. James Baldwin argues this in his short essay, “The Creative Process,” where he asserts that the purpose of an artist is

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