What do you create with? Everybody creates. It is an inherited trait of out heavenly, spiritual Father. To create is the essence of art, but art has a million mediums; pencil, pen, charcoal, paint, oil, watercolor, pastel, finger-paint, chalk, digital paint. And all that is but a few common paper mediums. What about food, furniture, woodwork, etch-a-sketch, words (stories and essays), architecture, landscape, and so many more.
The ability to create is something all are born with. As a little girl entangles her mothers hair in efforts to put it up in some fashion she is expressing that urge to create. As a young boy gathers all the pillows and blankets in the house stringing them here and there over the backs of chairs and couches he is expressing that urge to create. As you walk down the toy isle in your favorite store how many toys on the shelf have anything to to with creating? From the doodle-pad to the doll with the interchangeable outfits, from the tool belt to the plastic dump truck so many toys are to satisfy that urge to create. As we grow some choose to suppress this miraculous gift but still more choose to explore and develop theirs. The world would die if people did not create.
The most holy of creativity is the ability to create life. The seeming simplicity and assumed lack of talent required to do so has regretfully demeaned the value of this creative gift in the eyes of many creators. Undeniably, this is a demanding creation, so much so that the paints, the catalyst, are guarded by a simple lock requiring two (a man and a woman) to open. Each miraculous masterpiece requires a duality of artists.
So what do you create with? Creation is a necessity of life and each person has her own creative outlet.
Pen and lined paper.
ReplyDeleteYarn and hook.
Spreadsheet and data.
I don't think that procreation is actually as simple as it appears to be. It is easy enough to explore the techniques of this type of creation, but the actual product that procreation generates is not as easy to achieve as I had originally thought. We often hear from those who find sucess almost immediately, or without having hoped for the realization of their creative act. But there are more people than I thought who desired to find fulfillment in this type of creation and did not achieve it until months or years of effort had passed.
ReplyDeleteOur bodies already know how to go about this process of creativity, we even have a divinely given instinct to pull us into the creativity that will help us fulfill God's commandment to "multiply and replenish the earth." I think that this automatic knowledge and instinct are the reason this divine creativity are degraded and blasphemed.