Next week is World Creativity and Innovation Week and Creative Academic is facilitating an open conversation on the #creativeHE platform to explore the role of the body in creative processes and practices. The conversation is open to anyone who is curious or interested in trying to understand how are minds and bodies work together to imagine and then bring our ideas into existence and its being led by Lisa Clughen.
It's Easter weekend and I spent most of yesterday (Saturday) in my garden chopping down shrubs, pulling up unwanted weeds (mainly brambles) that had taken over certain parts of the garden and feeding a hugely satisfying and therapeutic bonfire to get rid of all the unwanted vegetation.
I love my garden and I know I am very fortunate indeed to own such a beautiful landscape that covers over 3 acres. But I have always seen myself as custodian whose role is to look after, to varying degrees, a garden that someone else has created. I have lived here for 12 years but I have not really modified this landscape. I have fixed fences when they have broken, chopped up trees when they have blown down or become diseased, pruned and cut hedges and shrubs and cut the acres of grass a hundred times, but I have not created any new landscapes. My body, with the help of numerous tools and a tractor has been the means by which I have maintained this landscape I have inherited but I have not created anything new. As I toiled in my garden this weekend, thinking about the forthcoming #creativeHE conversation, it dawned on me that I had used my body to serve someone else's creative vision and efforts which enabled them to turn a large field (apple orchard) into a visually stunning landscape.
It's Easter weekend and I spent most of yesterday (Saturday) in my garden chopping down shrubs, pulling up unwanted weeds (mainly brambles) that had taken over certain parts of the garden and feeding a hugely satisfying and therapeutic bonfire to get rid of all the unwanted vegetation.
I love my garden and I know I am very fortunate indeed to own such a beautiful landscape that covers over 3 acres. But I have always seen myself as custodian whose role is to look after, to varying degrees, a garden that someone else has created. I have lived here for 12 years but I have not really modified this landscape. I have fixed fences when they have broken, chopped up trees when they have blown down or become diseased, pruned and cut hedges and shrubs and cut the acres of grass a hundred times, but I have not created any new landscapes. My body, with the help of numerous tools and a tractor has been the means by which I have maintained this landscape I have inherited but I have not created anything new. As I toiled in my garden this weekend, thinking about the forthcoming #creativeHE conversation, it dawned on me that I had used my body to serve someone else's creative vision and efforts which enabled them to turn a large field (apple orchard) into a visually stunning landscape.
And today, Easter Sunday, as my children and grandchildren joyfully engaged in an Easter egg hunt running round the garden, climbing trees, or playing football on the closely cropped grass. I gained my reward for the efforts I have made.
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