Archive for November, 2008

being the creative subject…

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Here I am!  A cartoon of me done by a friend, if only I could be so creative.  Appreciating somebody else’s creativity is invaluable, seeing how they respond to ideas and comparing whether or not you would have done something the same or very different. My friend was teasing me a bit with this cartoon, by [...]

“Sorry mum. I was just being creative!”

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Whilst browsing the internet I stumbled upon an advert for Daz’s new liquitabs that work at 30 degrees celsius. The first part of the advert showed a school girl with her uniform covered in brightly coloured paints with the words: “Sorry mum. I was just being creative.” The text then led on to say: She [...]

How creativity can feel, my reflection.

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Towards the end of session 3 the group looked at various academic extracts and poems to see if we individually could find one that best fitted how creative processes made us feel. The extract that struck me as resembling how I feel is from Arthur Koestler’s The Act Of Creation (1975) “The most fertile region [...]