1. How do you define “spirituality”?

For me spirituality is a virtual thing, and it exists in people’s mind. This is about philosophical research. I think spirituality is people how to look this world and how people deal with things. Some spirituality is gifted. When people born, people already have some view about things in their mind. They know how to make things, and how does things work. Some spirituality is based on people’s development during their life time. This is depends on the environment that people live, and how clear their self-analysis is. Spirituality is a magical stuff, it will slide into people’s mind. The spirituality is about how long that people live, the longer that people live the view about things is more clear and intensive. Spirituality is the key that people create things. When an artist wants to create an artwork, the artist must have some spirituality of his career. Then, he will make a great artwork depends on how much spirituality he has. The more spirituality the person has, the more creativity the person will be.

2. Does spirituality differ from religion?

I think spirituality have some commons like religion. Spirituality is the development of people’s mind and heart. When people think about things they think about it depends on his believe. In religion, people also believe things. People always judge things or look at things depends on what they have learned from their religion. Religion is also a development of mind. Religion also need people have spirituality, people could understand the profound meaning of religion. Both of spirituality and religion need people inspect themselves. From inspecting themselves, their spirituality could get improved.

3. How do you define “creativity”?

In my mind creativity is ability that animal could have. Bird have creativity to build their nest, ants have the creativity to build their kingdom under the ground. I think creativity is gifted when animal born. People are the primate species in the world, so they have more knowledge than animals. Their creativity is much broader. Creativity depends on how much imagination that you could have, because some people could think about new stuff that other could not imagine.  This is the creativity, to create other people cannot imagine. Creativity also depends on what have you seen, where have you been.  This is also about the experience. When people’s view is open, their creativity would be better.

4. What is the source of creativity?

I think the source of creativity is the spirituality of people. Why? This is because how clear that you analysis things. If you understand something very well, then you can use this thing do something, or make some improvement on this thing. This is kind of creativity. Creativity also could be motivated by some idea spark. When you see something, this thing could make you associate another thing. Why people could create things, this is about the spirituality inside people. Spirituality could let people see other people could not see. When you have spirituality, you will associate this thing to other things. This is because spirituality could make you understand things, not only the appearance of that.

In this article, Alex Grey talks about the spirituality of art, and he also talks about the visual point of art. He says that, “The artist is possessed by a creative force, overtaken by a vision and driven to create.” The spirit of an artist is very important for their creations. When you want to create an art, you should have a blueprint in your mind. This is like you just copy the picture that has shown in your mind, or the picture is still in your mind. For an artist, he must have the ability of imagine and watching. I think most artists are good at watching, they watch what things happened around them. They always pay attention on the details, the thing that people will ignore. Artists could see the spirit of things, and they also could use their artwork to express what they have seen. The spirituality also depends on what the people experience and what they believe.  A good artwork most depends on an ego. Ego is very important for an artist to create. One thing is the artwork reflects what the artist wants to express. The other one is the artwork could be accepted by people, and they also give the artist good feedback. I kind understand the chakras that Alex Grey describes in his article. He mentions that there are seven chakras in human’s body, and he also declares that “The development of the next for chakras depends on awakening an awareness of the higher self, beyond the ego, toward higher self-knowledge and self-realization.” This means a good artist should improve himself by knowledge and accomplishment. This progress will cost very long time in people’s life. That’s why some artists created some great artwork in their old age, like Van Gogh. Artworks that have spirituality need the precipitation of time.