Art of Creativity

1. I have experienced a "flash of inspiration" like the one described in the article. Especially when I can't think of the name of something I was talking before. This lost piece of information always comes to me when I am least expecting it. When I exercise, sometimes I go over whatever I was studying the night before, and everything is much clearer. My best ideas for art projects comes when I am not stressed and it just comes to me. 

2. My method for finding new ideas is to do something else. If I am just completely focused on making new creative ideas, it will never be as innovative as I want to be. I need to step away and distract myself from the stress of coming up with a good idea. I let life happen, take inspiration from it, and then let my ideas come to me. 

3. My days are so standard and so structured that I took time to change it up. I called up a bunch of girls from my sorority who I do not know and scheduled coffee dates with them. they are strangers and it is completely out of character, and I found myself feeling much more comfortable with the house I am and generally happier during the day. I love meeting new people, and when it changes up my routine, I enjoy my day a lot more. I think that mixing my routine is an important thing to do, otherwise everything you do during your day loses its original purpose.

4. Emotions and physical sensations and actions have everything to do with creative avenues. Via our emotions and sensations, we can discover the message we want to send to our viewers. We can make decisions about aesthetics and concepts all based on what we are feeling and sensing. If we go outside and feel the cold and feel the sores on our ankles from our boots, and feel the wind whip at our face, maybe this could lead to a genius idea for the video we want to make, or the sound we want to create, or the painting we want to start. If we are happy and enjoying ourselves, this will reflect itself in our ideas and our work. What we do in every day life serves as our inspiration, so however we experience life with our senses and emotions is how we will represent it. 

5. Depending on the time period and era, this skill of using emotions and senses to create would result in a very different aesthetic. In the 1500-1800 time period in Europe, there were a lot of wars, a lot of gore, a lot of revolution. This was before advanced technology, paved roads, and large cities, meaning that the people of this time would feel and experience things that are very different from what we know. The art of this time period is focused almost entirely on the same ideas of revolution, war, poverty, and struggle.