As I learn to follow my own nose around the land instead of depending on Finn to set both pace and direction for my daily wander, I am coming face-to-face with some interesting lessons on the pull of inertia, and the challenge of creative thinking. I’m also finally grappling with my uncharacteristic (and to myself [...]
Filed under: Leaving School, Questioning, transitions, Uncategorized | Tagged: addiction, creativity, daring, inaction, inertia, obsession | 7 Comments »
Dean Shareski’s post reflecting on his experience with the 366 Photo Project and Alan Levine’s comment back to him about using metaphor on/in both image and writing have me thinking again about the relationship between image and text in my blogging and more actively creative explorations. Like Dean, I’ve written numerous times about the power [...]
Filed under: creativity, Emergence, Image Work, visual art | Tagged: blogging, creativity, discoveries, photos, writing | 11 Comments »
“Imagination, more than any other capacity, breaks through ‘the inertia of habit.’” (Maxine Greene, Releasing the Imagination, p.2 quoting John Dewey) “The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” Pablo Picasso “I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.” Flannery O’Connor A few years after college–after [...]
Filed under: Emergence, Questioning, Teaching and Learning, visual art | Tagged: art, creativity, imagination, Jenny Holzer, learning, MASS MoCA, museums | 5 Comments »
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