Timeline by Grassi, Alexa

What Creative Process Impacted Me The Most

grassial — 2024-04-18 16:41:35 UTC

One of the most influential models of creativity that impacted my creative process the most was Csikszentmihalyi's 5 Stages of the Creative Process. Csikzentmihalyi starts off his stages with the preparation stage where you spend your time taking in information that can help you build on top of your idea. For me and others this stage can take up a lot of time, for me personally I spend a lot of time here because I like to have the most information that I can before continuing with the process. The next stage is the incubation stage where you let what you learned in the preparation stage sit and subconsciously think about it. Next up is the insight stage, this stage is kind of where the idea blossoms into what it will be. This stage for me especially happens when I am mindlessly doing something else and the idea pops into my head. The fourth stage is the evaluation stage where you have to be able to be self-critical and look at your work in a different light to see what changes need to be made. The final Stage is the elaboration stage where you start doing the work, testing your work and gather more feedback. I find this stage to be an important one because you get all of the final feedback where the viewer can see more of a whole picture.

My Creative Risks

grassial — 2024-04-18 16:56:30 UTC

I got to take the most creative risks and stretch my creative muscles by completing art explorations every week. Looking back at when I took my biggest creative risks, it was while doing the neurographic art assignments. Completing these gave me the freedom to put my own creative twist on the assignment while also being able to follow along with the video. One of the bigger risks I took was creating a web looking neurographic and using darker colors. While it wasn't my favorite looking neurographic because of how dark it turned out, it started off without paint looking like a spider web but once I added the paint it started to look like a flower. Which made me really look back at my past creations to see what other art explorations started looking like one thing but ended up looking like another.

Creative Process In Art Explorations

grassial — 2024-04-18 17:17:21 UTC

Referring back to what I said at the end of my creative risks tab, I started to look back more at my process photos compared to my final product photos. When I look back at my past process photos, it reminds me of how I went through my creative process that day. One of the creative process that I like the most that I did is from Zentangles 1 because I wrote a little description of what was going through my mind while I was making the Zentangle. Some insights that I have gained during this semester about my creative thinking is that I found that I find more success when I explain what I am doing with pictures. Another thing that helped me grow is being able to see my peers creative process. Not only being able to see another persons creative process but being able to them do the exact same thing as me but use a different creative process and thinking really opened my eyes to new ways to do things.

How I Can Apply What I Have Learned

grassial — 2024-04-18 18:07:21 UTC

The lessons that I have learned during this course have been very important me already and I have been able to already apply what I have learned this semester. One important lesson that I have taken with me was from Emily Esfahani Smith's TedTalk "There's more to life than being happy" she validated my fears of "what if I don't have the perfect job, relationship, and family?" She explained a study that shows people who only focus on chasing happiness actually become more unhappy. Happiness majorly comes from having a meaning in life. She found the four pillars of a meaningful life, belonging, purpose, transcendence, and storytelling. Understanding the importance and reasoning behind each of these pillars has helped me find more happiness because I can identify which pillar I feel is lacking and how I can try to fill it. Being around people who make me feel like I belong, finding a purpose in what I am studying, taking it all in when you feel like you're in a transcendent state, and being able to tell the story about yourself how you want to.

How I Can Use My Creativity For Positive Change

grassial — 2024-04-18 19:58:47 UTC

I have been able to draw inspiration on the kind of legacy I want to leave behind especially from Esfahani Smith. From watching her TedTalk "There's more to life than being happy' her TedTalk inspired me to want to follow the four pillars of a meaningful life. I want to be able to make others feel like they belong or help someone find their purpose in life. Trying to find a purpose can be one of the hardest things we will ever do. While some people are lucky to find their purpose younger, not everyone is so lucky. Having support to be able to discover your purpose is so important because it makes you feel so much more powerful when you have people in cheering for you in your corner. I can use my creativity as a force for positive change by supporting others in their pursuit of living a meaningful life.

The Evolution Of My Understanding Of Creativity

grassial — 2024-04-18 20:08:22 UTC

The way I understood creativity at the beginning of the semester is so different than how I understand creativity now. Before I thought that creativity was something that not everyone had, I have always thought that I didn't have a creative bone in my body. Coming up with and creating amazing artworks was just never in my realm of possibilities, until I learned that creativity is not just art work. There are so many other aspects of being creative that went unnoticed my me. Just during my art explorations I used my own creativity to make each one my own. During zentangles I could add little designs to make the zentangle feel my own. I can learn and be inspired by others and still be creative. Creativity does not have to be something that you come up with, with absolutely no help from past ideas or others. So much of the new inventions we see today is because it was inspired based on something else. Going into this class I had the idea that it felt like everything has already been created, theres nothing left for me to think of, but in reality those same thoughts probably went through the last generation of inventors and the generation before them. Creativity does not just come nothing, it can be inspired and manipulated into what works best today.

How Reflecting's Has Impacted My Development Of My Creative Metacognition

grassial — 2024-04-18 20:20:04 UTC

The process of reflecting on my creative process every week through my weekly responses and art explorations has helped me develop my creative metacognition. The weekly responses have helped me slow down and taken in all that I learned during the week. It lets me go over what I found to be the most impactful things I've learned over the week and explain how they impacted me. Reflecting has also helped me improve on how I self reflect, I have always struggled with self reflection because I didn't know how to not be too critical of myself. It always felt like I was either being too harsh on myself or I was focusing on not being too critical. Reflecting has also allowed me to learn more about where I have room for improvement and where I succeed in. I found that some spot I can improve in is trying to stray away from the directions. What I mean by this is not always following all the instructions to a t. I can let myself explore other options or add something that I think would make my art exploration look better.