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Lets Get Creative Festival

11/5/2019

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It's the BBC's annual Get Creative Festival this week and we have invited members of the #creativeHE and Creative Academic comunities to do something creative and share what they have done in the #creativeHE forum.  Just before the event I decided to make a movie of a week in the life of my garden. As the event unfolded one of the early themes to emerge was the idea that we sometimes self-impose constraints on our creativityprojects. One of the participants talked about producing a sketch every day but restricting her drawing to a 1" square. I like this idea so I adopted the idea of making and publishing a 1 minute movie everyday which I will incorporate into a story about a week in the life of my garden. 
Timing is important. Everything has a time and often we miss it because we are not prepared or not aware. This is certainly true where nature and light are concerned. I know, if I want to photograph or video the wild life in my garden I must be patient. I know if I want particular sorts of light such conditions are only likely at particular moments in the day, then I need to present in those moments.

Professional photographer Dewitt Jones illustrates these principles really well explaining how, if we want to engage with nature, we much put ourselves into the space and time of highest potential. So too with our creativity projects we must put ourselves into the right time frame and mental and physical space, have access to the right tools and resources, and think and act in the space in ways that are more likely to produce the results we want, often not knowing what exactly we want until it happens, and hoping we will recognise it when we see and experience it. The second thing Dewitt Jones teaches us is there is ‘no one right answer’ but many possibilities from which we can select, but only if we keep looking and we keep searching for fresh perspectives.
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