All works of Art, in any medium, stand alone as a separate entity from the person who created it.
They remain dormant and only come to life when someone reads them, looks at them or listens to them.
For a brief moment in time, they come to life and manifest themselves in the mind of an individual.
It conjures up memories, emotions, experiences and fantasies unique TO that individual so that it materializes as an intimate experience unlike any other.
Simultaneously, the works are permanently and physically embedded in that individual's subconscious mind
so that it becomes part of their consciousness mind and manifests itself in another form through the creative process.
Every time someone comes into contact with that Art work, the same thing will happen again and again during the artist's lifetime, a hundred years from now, or even in a thousand years. All because the art has a power and energy all it's own.

When you spend most of your time absorbed in mental things, you're not really living in THIS world,
you're living somewhere else.

The words in a book, the colors, shapes and textures on a painting or a photograph, the time of day, the color of the sky, the weather, the seasons, the way light shines down on or reflects off of or even through certain types of objects; the way it casts shadows on other objects. These are the things that can inspire moods, paintings, photographs, video, poetry, fashion and, yes, even music. These are the types of elements that have inspired the music of Symmetry over the last 30 years.
The "raw material", for lack of a better description, is the music of other artists,...some from the present, but mostly from the past and from different regions of the world. There's a whole litany of artists in almost every genre whose music has been recorded and mashed together in our subconscious minds so that, when we create our own music, what comes out is the sum total of everything we've heard.
In a sense, we are what we eat.