Tag: creativity

The Art of the Matter

Arizona by Seshu Kiran GS, used with permission of the artist.   What is creativity?   Is it taking an abstract idea and crystallising it into something tangible? And should the process of creativity also have an impact on the practitioner as  well as the reader / viewer / listener / purchaser?  On the face of it, …

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Living with PTSD – a UK exhibition

Creativity serves many purposes. It can take us on journeys of the imagination, enable us to present new and interesting ideas to others, and even allow us to begin to heal. My friend, Villayat ‘SnowMoon Wolf’ Sunkmanitu, uses photography and poetry as a coping mechanism for living with PTSD and also as a way of raising …

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Choose Your Words Carefully

The one thing you can say for certain about words is that no two people use them the same way. They are symbols for understanding something and they are open to interpretation. For anyone who wants to write comedy, this is surely a blessed state of affairs, bestowing upon us homonyms, alliteration and a host …

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Make Believe for Grown Ups

Creative thinking and the use of the imagination are often hailed as two of the secrets to productivity, originality and a whole bunch of other ‘alities’ (except banality). Most people can remember a time when, as children, we would play as characters from TV, the cinema or books, or even from our own imaginings. I’m …

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Creativity, illness and The Silent Hills

A recent piece on the BBC website by Health report Michelle Roberts, caught my attention. Headlined ‘Creative minds mimic schizophrenia’, the article cited a conclusion drawn by scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute.In essence, brain scans of highly creative people and those who suffer from schizophrenia show striking similarities.You can read the BBC piece here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/10154775.stmWe …

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