Artifact 7: Creative Spirituality
Object: 1.Get personal value about the spirit of create
2. Know the difference and similar between spirituality and religion

Original post:
What is Creativity? Oscar Wilde’s opinion is“To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it come into existence”(p. 71). From this opinion, I consider every people in the world is a creation. I have no religion, I don’t know human are the creations of whom. However, I definite think I’m a creation of my patients. In addition, although different people born in different place, I do consider all human are beauty. I trust everything with life is beauty. Farthermore, I believe that everything with life is unique. They have unique personality, different face and different shape. I have an idea always in my mind, humans are creations, so there are lots of creativity in our world and our life. Some time people work in different area, but creativity still affect their ways to do things. Chef use their creativity to create different delicious dish, artists use their creativity to create different fascinating artworks, musician use their creativity to create wonderful music. I am not a English speaker, I don’t know too much word to admire creativity. I use the word “gift” to describe creativity. The inborn gift from human’s nature. All human’s culture is relate to creativity. For art, artists use their creativity to represent what they thought in their mind to the real world. I remember that the text mentioned as an artists, they should have ability to identify different levels of beauty. However, I don’t think so. Each people have their own standard for identify art. What is beauty? I think is relate to people’s attitude to see the world. So, artists might have right to consider all the things exist in the world are beautiful or all the things exist in the world are ugliness. Creativity give our ability to identify the world. I think I could’t set a standard for our un-limit creativity.

Reflection: I like this topic, for this week’s studying, I have more understand for the relationship about art and religion. On the points, I think is similar, religion need people to insist their “spirituality” in their daily activities that they can get succes in their life. Art need people to feel the world, to see the world that people can use their creativity to get success in the art area. I consider religion’s spiritualty can give people mental power, but I don’t agree that art’s spire is a religion power.

Future: Each people have their right to choose their belief. No matter religion or not religion, when people keep their mind and know what is their spirit then, they can have power to create their artworks. I consider creativity is a inborn gift. It makes the world different, each individual different and each artist’s artwork different.

Bibliography:

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