Category: Unit 07

1. How do you define “spirituality”: Spirituality is simply a process of personal transformation. Using personal senses, people see or feel something and get inspired by it. By experiencing the senses, people express their aesthetic reactions and interpret the senses in forms of several works. Spirituality obviously enables people to believe the senses and to see a certain thing deeply. Once people get inspired and have a strong spirituality, it would not be easy to change their views.
2. Does spirituality differ from religion?Spirituality can be found in many subjects, many people believe that one subject could have reality side and spirituality side. Also, one person could define many things in his/her life as spirituality, for example, the relationship between this person and another person is spirituality, however, the same person cloud also have a relationship with different person which may be not spirituality. On the other hand, religion is a belief. One person usually have one one religion, some people even only believe in one version or one type of a pacific religion. For example, Muslin has Sony and Shia. Some Arabic people only believe in Sony and all his/her belief and religion practice only relate to this one type of religion.
3. How do you define “creativity”? Creativity is ability of creating  something new and also valuable. Such as an idea, an artistic or a painting. Creativity is an ability of people, it always turns out positive outcomes. such as painter with creativity produce great paintings. “the process of creativity includes formulation, saturation, incubation, inspiration, translation and integration” (Grey).
4. What is the source of creativity? There must be some ways of learning that are helping with the people to develop the ability of being creative. It may require the people themselves has the willingness to be creative and the environment to be allowed to let them to be. Lastly, there must be something to encourage and inspires them to be creative. It could be information, knowledge, encouragement, and technologies.

There are many religions in this worlds, as I know, most of the religions in Africa are about connecting to the spiritual world, the people who believe in these religion cares about how they could open their eyes and see another world, talk to another living beings. For example, they hold an walking stick on hand and put an stone on the top, they believe, the top of that stick is another eye which could see what human cannot see.  I would define spirituality as an willingness of connecting to universe or other worlds, the reason I say it is “willingness” is because not everyone believe spirituality in the same way that the realigned people believe. Back to the relationship between the spirituality and art , Grey has said that :“There is a vast difference between looking and seeing – a difference which is fundamental to the artist’s experience” (p72). Most artist believe they have saw the world different than normal people, so they could create the art works in a deeper way and the express it out.  Here,  spirituality and religion has separate definitions.  For example, in the video, the artist sees the thread in many more ways than we see it, she put lives into the thread so it could show in different art forms.  I rather say spirituality in art is more focus on the subject and the passion of creating. however, religion is  a set of beliefs and practices.  What if people who don’t have the passion of spirituality, can they spiritually connect with the artists and understand the art?

 

Grey, A. (2001). Art as Spiritual Practice. The Mission of Art (1st ed., pp. 205-233). Boston & London: Shambhala.