Goals

• Become familiar with ways in which spirituality influences artists
• Discuss the differences between spirituality and religion
• Examine spirituality as a generative force and a well spring for creativity

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1.In my opinion, spirituality is something really pure of what an individual can think about based on what he/she believes. It does not have a wide-agree definition, but I think everyone has spirituality.  spirituality is not just a simple process of one man’s thoughts, but a balance point of his/her ideas in every situations.  When spirituality shows itself,  everyone can actually see what it looks like.  Overall, spirituality is pretty unclear but has deep meaning.

2.Different from spirituality, religion is something more specific.  Why? Because religion has a goal. The goal of religion is to let people believe this idea. If we can see religion, it is just like an apple in front of us. We can see the details on it, like colors or any hole on it. However, we cannot see what’s inside of it. The core inside of the apple maybe bad. You can only know when you taste the apple. This is how religion feels like.

3.Creativity is not a strange word. Most of my class in university tells me to be creativity. Reason is because creativity can bring really amazing creation. When someone tells you to create something it does not necessarily means that you have to make an object that has never been discovered, but you can just combine two old things with new reasons  and meaning and it will become a creation. Then the ability of creation is called creativity.

4. The source of  creativity is from everywhere. Most people get their ideas from daily life. When your assignment needs you to be creative, people will automatically search from their old experience and they will search it. They search it so they can see clearly what can be combined together and make this  assignment much more easier. Creativity really just come from everywhere in daily life.  Everyone can be creative. They just don’s know it.

Reflection:

Spirituality is a really holy word in my opinion. To be honest, this assignment is bit hard to understand because I was pretty confused about the difference between Spirituality and religion. Now I understand a little but I can still hardly explain it well. Spirituality is just like a believe but without limitation, not like religion, spirituality can be anything.  According to my understanding of the assignment, “spirituality is pretty unclear but has deep meaning”Wang 2014). This is the feeling of spirituality. You can’t really figure out what that is, but you believe the existence of it is real. On the other hand, religion is more  different. religion is thoughts limited by rules. However, people are tending to accept things with rules instead of things without one. This is pretty interesting.

Goal of future:

I really like the word spirituality, so I am going to do more research about it and try to understand what that is and what does it cost to get spirituality.

Bibliography:

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

Table of contents:

Artifact 1: Life of value.

Artifact 2: Is food an art?

Artifact 3:Observation of people.

Artifact 4: What is Art?

Artifact 5: Horror

Artifact 6:  Creative Spirituality

Artifact 7:  Technology

Artifact 8: Remixing Culture