Chapter 6: Wind-up

Chapter 6 of potential hindrances to our creative development: [Looking back on the last 4 articles, I’m wondering if I may have gone a little too far out. I have to remind myself that the aim of these writings is to help expose what we need to unlearn to reveal our creative abilities. What often ends up… Continue reading

Chapter 6/ Part 4: Landscapery

Continuing on with the presupposition that Art is learning to take the idea in our head (imagination means ‘picturing it’) and executing that idea in material form… I have to bring up one particular mental picture obsession that stands out above the others (at least in the adult art education scene) and that is a landscape…. Continue reading

Chapter 6/ Part 3: Yeah Right

Chapter 6 of potential hindrances to our creative development continued… Finding ideas instead of trying to think of them is just one approach to expanding the scope of the imagination beyond what is already preconceived. But if we have limited ourselves to what David Bohm referred to as “one’s habits of mechanical perception in terms of preconceived ideas… Continue reading

Chapter 6: Cloud Clinging

Chapter 6 of potential hindrances to our creative development: 00VI: Art is learning to take the idea in our head (imagination means ‘picturing it’) and executing that idea in material form. How do you consider your imagination when you make art (or ‘something’, if art is too lofty a term)? Do you have a picture in your mind… Continue reading

Chapter 5: Wind-up

Chapter 5 of potential hindrances to our creative development: **00V: We need to be ‘inspired‘ in order to create.** Coming to the end of this chapter, I cannot help noticing the cause-and-effect flavour of this statement and how this linear view toward something as timeless and ubiquitous as inspiration may be the root of several kinks in… Continue reading