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.

Harbor Stories

Salt whistling through my hands
took my papers, like
sails full, fluttering higher, until
at their height
they unfurled
a flock of seagulls
passing on the wind,
ink from tip to tip.

And as sailors look to them
for guidance home
through the fog,
I looked to them
hoping they'd take me.

Snowghosts

I went out into that white,
but couldn't believe it was still there
when I blinked
as I'd been told tales of winter mornings
that melted to swampy nights

Broken chestnuts sounded
with each step as I explored
that earth-caught cloud,
down the driveway
some cast off car wash
caught my foot,
brought my view to earth

Above me, hundreds of
giant white flowers speckled
on the trees, a winter coat
given by a concerned mother.

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.