Moelwyn Mawr

Moelwyn Mawr

PETER HARRIS - Early Twenties HUGH LOYD – Forties

MATILDA BRAOSE – Fifties

Setting

Northern Wales, on the mountain Moelwyn Mawr, near the town of Tanygrisiau, in 1924

Set

An empty stage, with a giant door against the back, and two tall widows on either side; Scene III, the stage was a two large wing backed chairs, and a pile of artifacts around one of them; Scene IV, the stage has a table with two chairs.

SCENE I

Creative Act #8

For my creative act this week, I've included the beginning of a short story I'm working on that is highly unedited. I did this because I think it can be more interesting to see the process of how people complete their creative acts, and thus by showing this little bit of what how I do it I can show my creative process.

Creative Act #7

High Back Chair

When I saw you
with your oak legs
sunk into that
golden lawn, I wondered why
you left me alone
in my magazine house.

"Maybe I should take
you home"

but that corner has
been filled, and
your colleages gone
because like
children playing outside
you never happen anymore.

Can Creativity Be Taught?

Creativity is one of those non-spatial things that no one can define or grasp. It isn't something specific, like pottery, and it isn't something general, like sports. It's a category inside a category, where different acts are all defined creative, but those acts are not always creative. A painting could be good, but it could also be a good painting that doesn't do anything creative, either mimicking a style or copying a subject. This brings to question, can creativity be taught?

Creative Being #6

Crane
Originally uploaded by personmaker2000

So origami is something that I've had an interest in for a very long time, so I decided I might as well learn to make the classic one, a crane.

So everything I know how to make with origami has been very simple. The crane is a step above everything else. It involves much more folding, and thus I found out just how hard it is to use normal paper as opposed to origami paper. It doesn't fold as nicely, I found out, making it really hard to make good looking folds. So, as I found out, origami can actually be hard. Very hard.

Creative Being #5

Necklace
Originally uploaded by personmaker2000

This is a necklace that I whittled from a piece of wood I found. I had never whittled before, but felt the need for some reason. The leather I bought but the hole I had created was too small, so I had to cut it in half to make it fit. A very excruciating process.

Creative Being #4

granola
Originally uploaded by personmaker2000

So for this week, I decided to try my hand baking some granola bars, a healthy staple of anyones diet. Of course, being a student and not having the right ingredients nor the right utensils, I set about replacing and trying new ingredients. Of course, sometimes it's good to go with the recipe, and my granola bars turned out tasting more like sugar then anything else.

Blog Reflection #1

In my very first blog post, when I posted the recording of me reading my poem aloud, I wasn't too sure how it was "creative". All I was doing was reading something I had written, which felt creative, but I couldn't really define it. However, looking back, I can say with certainty it was creative. In "An Inquiry into the Factors Related to Creativity", Klein gives out nine common aspects of creativity. Now, the sense I get from reading that list is that creativity is doing something new and pushing your limits. That applies to me reading my poem, which is something new.

This has me thinking now about my creative process as a whole. Whatever I do, whether it's writing or drawing a picture, I think of what I've seen and done. Past experience influence me, and I always try to do something that I haven't seen before, or take something and change it subtly. originality is important to me, so it makes sense that it shows through all my work. Being "real" towards your acts.

I'm also thinking about the article we had to read this week ("The Creative Habit: Learn it and use it for life"), about our views on the world. I would have to say that, going from the experience of recording myself, I'm more focused on the details. I practiced reading that poem about a dozen times, trying to get my pronounciation down so that my slight lisp doesn't show. Phrasing each word correctly.

So viewing this poem restrospectly like this has shown me some things about my creative process, getting me to think about how I try new things all the time, and don't shy away from the details when it comes time to get close. Afterall, I just read the poem because I had never done anything like that before.

Creative Being #3

I wrote another poem for this weeks creative act, and this one is different from my normal writing. I went for a rhyming tone instead of a breathy, multiple syllable one, opting to use alliteration to give it a nice sound. This isn't something I usually do, and as such I took some liberties, inserting some words that weren't part of the alliteration to make it sounds better. I also ended it with a non-alliteration line, just so it would pop out.

Ranting ran through red
while white lilies wade wherever my eyes lie,
discrepancies destroyed during my delay
to touch taste take the moment.
Action avoided to attain peace
but just belated beastly events.
Long life is if
one only owns to now
or thinks of present, and not future.

Creative Being #2

Knitting a scarf
Originally uploaded by personmaker2000

Knitting is something that is still fairly new to me. I've done a little, but I've never actually finished anything, so I decided to use the little knowledge I have to experiment a bit, by alternating stiches and using some new, thicker wool. Sadly, it's starting to curl. Of course, no where close to finished, but a good two hours in.

Creative Being #1

So I decided to post my poem I did for my writing class. However, instead of copy-pasting it, I chose to read it, as I’m constantly told poetry is for hearing, not reading. This isn't something I normally do, and it has helped with me editing it and getting a natural flow going. It's definitely something I'm going to try doing more, and I'm glad I did it. It’s untitled right now, as well as being in a rough stage. I also included the text below.




As a winter wind passed through my hands,
picking up my papers and spreading them
like doves trying to harbor peace,
I tried to give body
to something so abstract as this beauty.
But as even birds have to land eventually,
and paper can only float, not fly,
I left it as is,
on that February day.