a or b 
Sometime the context makes for different interpretations of an image. At other time the orientation of the image itself makes the difference.
Which side should be up? In my recent non-object abstract painting I was not sure which side should be up. Sometime the decision makes a big creative difference. What do you think?
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This existential video poem was created in our backyard.
I created a similar music video several years ago probably one of my most beautiful music improvisations
I developed this guided imaginary at the Metropolitan State College in Denver when I was teaching Creativity in Business. It was a first freely improvising on the piano to hearing the script in the headphones. Subsequently I used the guided imagery for a presentation I did at the Design Management Conference in Martha’s Vineyard when our daughter was about a year old and we had just learned she was deaf and might never hear our voice. I got laryngitis so I could hardly speak and had to whisper at the 3 hour presentation so the guided imaginary part gave my voice a break. I wonder now about the audience who could hardly hear my voice then.
Active imagination is a concept from Carl Jung.
As developed by Carl Jung between 1913 and 1916, active imagination is a meditation technique wherein the contents of one’s unconscious are translated into images, narrative or personified as separate entities. It can serve as a bridge between the conscious ‘ego’ and the unconscious and includes working with dreams and the creative self via imagination or fantasy.
Key to the process of active imagination is the goal of exerting as little influence as possible on mental images as they unfold. For example, if a person were recording a spoken visualization of a scene or object from a dream, Jung’s approach would ask the practitioner to observe the scene, watch for changes, and report them, rather than to consciously fill the scene with one’s desired changes. One would then respond genuinely to these changes, and report any further changes in the scene. This approach is meant to ensure that the unconscious contents express themselves without overbearing influence from the conscious mind. At the same time, however, Jung was insistent that some form of participation in active imagination was essential: ‘You yourself must enter into the process with your personal reactions…as if the drama being enacted before your eyes were real’. *
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_imagination
When I used the process I was showing how participants could relax deeply and then imagine actively the creative solution to what was on there minds by mentally speaking to archival guides.
P.S. Amy now 27, has minimal hearing but lip reads well and is married and doing great working in Denver.
Captured by a lady
bug crawling up her arm,
she did not hear
my approach
on the narrow sidewalk
till her mother called
A little boy
said to a woman
as she exited,
“I hate these bathrooms,
can’t tell
which one to go into.”
Replied she,
“right.”
listening
without hearing
sound
mouthed words
in kangaroo courts
of public opinion
license to steal
metal of meaning
music of numbed
gleanings
in worlds
deaf sightings
fingers dancing
misunderstandings
careening across walls
shadows of sense
vultures picking
the carcass
of the not yet
dead
too deep
for understanding
fathoms below
the surface
of air and fire
and ordinary life
coconut haze
old timers glaze
when now
is yesterday
and
tomorrow
is never
descends on
loose ends
of time
depends upon
no one
and everyone
when loved ones
struggle
with no one
left
no life
lost in a maze
lost among family
no mother or father
no sister or brother
no son or daughter
no husband or wife
to call their name
lost
without now
without knowing
without punctuation
in a land
of strangers
dangers
no safety
to call home
ET call home
similar ways
coconut haze
so much depends
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
*
So much depends upon
the red wheelbarrow purchased
at McGuckin’s spring tent sale,
Diane long wanted one
to move dirt and pots,
to plant her flowers, but
it came in a box of parts
with directions for assembly
in three languages:
Slotted Bolt for Tray Braces (Qty 2) or
Boulon pour protections avant (2 pieces) or
Perno para soporte del eje (cant.4)
Hex Nuts and Lock Washers
And 19 Pieces Detaches
On the Lista de piezas.
Read ALL instructions first.
Do not tighten nuts
Until you have completed
Assembly parts
[or you’ll be screwed]
Use force to pull
Leg Assembly outward,
[as all assembled parts
threaten to break apart.]
Do not inflate beyond
Recommended tire pressure
Union Tools hereby warrants the product which you have purchased to be free from defects in materials or workmanship, unless used commercially for a period of ninety (90) days after purchase [besides, no guarantee of rain, flowers or chickens]
And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. (LUKE 9:58)
the other
in safety brown,
quacking in
their small puddle,
while a ragged
man sleeps
in the morning sun,
his head supported
by a rock.
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. (1 THE 5:6)
They can’t go forth
without you
in the picture
of dreams,
the smallest
that come
without want,
but weather well
in other times
and places,
passions rising
without sound
in green.
Waiting
a left turn
into a traffic of
unending obligations,
I see the future
past
many times
before I met you,
before we meet again,
down that white path
passing through
the unnatural
crevasse
to await your inspection,
you doctor of skin,
in the papered room
with the pink antiseptic push jar
and the pink plastic-lined silver basket—
cold.
I want to break that safety glass
into thousands of pieces
of nothing.
No large s(hard*
to penetrate the heart
of this matter).
shard n.
Drafts* of
orange sunrise,
yet no north-
eastern orb
to light long shadows
through bare trees.
Apple blossoms still,
no chorus of songbirds
or Johnnie one-notes
morse-coding messages,
as early risers,
draftees of the new day,
march to different
deep-keeled thoughts,
on the creek path,
draughts of drunken dream$,
while I lie
languidly
sketching these thoughts
from the sundeck of hell(o)
*
draft
n 1: a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another [syn: bill of exchange, order of payment] 2: a current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle) [syn: draught, air current] 3: a preliminary sketch of a design or picture [syn: rough drawing] 4: a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) [syn: draught, potation, tipple] 5: preliminary version of a written work [syn: draft copy] 6: the depth of a vessel’s keel below the surface (especially when loaded) 7: a device for regulating the flow of air in a fireplace 8: a dose of liquid medicine; “he took a sleeping draft” [syn: draught] 9: compulsory military service [syn: conscription, muster, selective service] 10: a large and hurried swallow; “he finished it at a single gulp” [syn: gulp, draught, swig] 11: the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling [syn: draught, drawing] v 1: draw up an outline or sketch for something; “draft a speech” [syn: rough, outline] 2: engage somebody to enter the army [syn: enlist, muster in] [ant: discharge] 3: make a blueprint of [syn: blueprint, draught]
| Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University |
