Altoon Sultan blogs about what constitutes originality in art by asking: "Is Ezra Pound's modernist injunction to 'Make it new' useful?"

She continues: "I believe that time to be alone, time to work, and to think, time to be open to the world, are necessary in order to find our true selves in the cacophony of influences. Finding that self, the one that leads to original and unique thought, is what is so difficult…"