Week 11 - Soulmaking

Soulmaking

The purpose of this is to know oneself better, to understand life’s depth and essence, learning from your experience.

Soul

When the __ is enriched, our deepest creative impulses are energized and set in motion.

Soulmaking

This is an alternate place to know oneself and to look at the depth and meaning of what we do in our daily lives.

Dr. Norman Francisco.

He is one of the leading Filipino thought leaders in the art world.

Soulmaking

Anyone who seeks experience and exploration of art making regardless of skill can be involved in ____.

• Knowing Oneself

• Purpose

• Everyday Life

• Depth and Essence

What are the four major points of soulmaking?

Crafting images, stories, instruments, movements and technique.

What are the 5 categories of soulmaking?

Crafting Images

This pertains to the creation of visual representations of images through different methods in different forms such as drawing, painting and sculpting.

Crafting Stories

This is the moment someone writes and inscribes thoughts, ideas, criticisms, life values, and emotions is already crafting.

Crafting Instruments

This is a bridge toward the unknown, because through the melodic narrative the instruments produce, it transcends our feelings, emotions, and sensations to another dimension.

Crafting Movements

This says that everything we do is a performance in different rhythms and narratives. The pattern that the life serves provided by a person can be an inspiration for an artist or artisan.

Crafting Technique

This can be crafted by an artist/artisan into different pieces of art by reflecting on past experiences and explorations.

• Seeking

• Settling

• Surrendering

• Soulmaking

• Soaring

What are the 5 phases of soulmaking?

Seeking

This is the recognition and acknowledgement that each of us who is interested in growth is a seeker.

Settling

This is communication with the soul with other human beings and non human beings with the world. This is about finding ourselves settled at one point in life.

Surrendering

The service in the soul begins in the midst of crashing, capacity to surrender is limited to the level of pain and uncertainty we can endure. It takes us up and throws us down. It directs us to accept the wounds we hear and forces us to live in darkness.

Soulmaking

We start becoming an expert and grow up with wisdom looking for the welfare of others.

Soaring

This is enabling to pass up soulmaking so we can soar and conquer worldly experiences of the physical actualities.

Da Vinci Principles

This principle regards our eyes to be a the primary approach to knowledge, in this principle- our sight is the highest sense since it can express realities of experience accurately, and with certainty. 

Leonardo Da Vinci

His famous works are last supper and monalisa.

How to Think Like Da Vinci

A book written in 1992 by Michael Gelb in which he derived the 7 principle of Da Vinci.

• Curiosita

• Dimonstrazione

• Sensazione

• Sfumato

• Arte/ Scienza

• Corporalita

• Connessione

What are the 7 da vinci principles?

Curiosita (Curiosity)

This is the life approached marked by curiosity that is ravenous and an unyielding need for further learning and higher knowledge. The two basic questions here is ‘What if?” and ‘How come?”

Dimonstrazione (Experiential)

This is the commitment, dedication, and willingness to text out knowledge and learning from mistakes. This principle is the incorporation of “controlling your own life through your ownhands.”

Sensazione (Sensory)

This is the continuous improvement of the senses, particularly the sight, as a way to enrich the experience.

Sfumato (Transfiguration)

This is the willingness to embrace uncertainty, paradox, and ambiguity. 

Arte / Scienza (Art and Science)

This is the growth of an equilibrium between logic and imagination, as well as science and art. It is the notion of the whole brain thinking.

Corporalita (Body and Mind)

This is the cultivation of beauty, natural talent, fitness and grace. It is the balance of maintaining a healthy mind as well as a healthy body.

Connessione (System Thinking)

This is simply the acknowledgement and appreciation of the connections between different things and occurences.

Narrative

This means the choice of events to be linked and to relate. It is a depiction or particular manifestation of the story.

Sequence

The easiest way to remind people of the distinction between a story and a narrative is to change the event’s ___.

Narrative

This translate the story into facts, or better, understanding for the receiver (the viewer or the reader). 

Paradoxical

Every story incident is a unit of information provided by the viewer. A story is ___ since it tries to express the facts by covering it.

Appropiation

This refers to the artist’s work utilizing prior artifacts or pictures of painting with no initial transformation.

Appropiation

This poses questions of authenticity, originality and authorship, and it belongs to the long-standing Modernist art tradition, which questions art itself.

Borrowing

This is the act of copying other artist’s work to learn about the methods and processes of art. This has been widely practiced for years. In fact, this work is only considered as a learning activity.

Cultural Appropiation

This is the inappropriate or unacknowledged adoption of an element of a culture or identity of a culture.

Culture

This is anything associated with a group of people based on their identity.

Appropriation

This refers to taking something that doesn’t belong to you or your culture. This is when a dominant group borrows something from a minority.

Cultural Denigration

This is when someone adopts an element of a culture with the sole purpose of humiliating or putting down the people of that culture.

Cultural Appreciation

This is the respectful borrowing of elements from another culture with an interest in sharing ideas and diversifying oneself.

Exchange

A type of cultural appropriation that is defined as a reciprocal exchange between two cultures that are approximately equal in terms of power and dominance. 

Dominance

A type of cultural appropriation in where it involves a dominant culture taking an element of a subordinate culture that has had a dominant culture forced upon it.

Exploitation

This type is defined as taking cultural elements of a subordinate culture without compensation, permission, or reciprocity.

Transculturation

This is a form of appropriation in where it involves taking and combining elements of multiple cultures, making it difficult to identify and credit the source.

Object Appropiation

This is the latency of objects for appropriation as works of art. This occurs when the possession of a tangible work is transferred from members of one culture to members of another culture. 

Object Appropiation

This is owning an object which is not culturally significant to you.

Context Appropiation

This occurs when an artist has made significant reuse of an idea first expressed in the work of an artist from another culture. A musician who sings the songs of another culture has engaged in content appropriation, as has a writer who retells stories produced by a culture other than his own.

Style Appropiation

A type of cultural appropriation, which occurs when a person uses stylistic innovations of a distinctive of a cultural group that is not their own. 

Motif Appropriation

This occurs when artists are influenced by the art of a culture other than their own without creating works in the same style. This is related to style, but basic motifs are appropiated.

Subject Appropiation

This is also known as voice appreciation. This occurs when no artistic product of culture is appropriated; rather, it is used without any acknowledgement or consent.