Listen to what Kim Hermanson, author of Getting Messy: Awakening Creativity in the Classroom, says about creativity and passion, and then visit her website at http://www.aestheticspace.com/:
"I've been pondering the wisdom of the heart lately. Rather sheepishly, the activist Che Guevara once said, `...at the risk of sounding ridiculous, the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.' While we all may not wish to become revolutionaries, we can't create anything without the heart and its passion. We have to care about something to create art, or anything else of real value.
Unfortunately, we live in a world where left-brain, rational intelligence is much more likely to dominate over the wisdom of the heart. Why? Because the heart doesn't operate in the realm of slick words and explanations. It doesn't have words ready and available to explain or win arguments. The heart's terrain is much deeper; it operates below the level of words. Its realm is that of images, metaphor, and sensory impressions and it speaks to us only when we make space for it, and when we immerse ourselves in beauty."
The artwork, above, is a paper sculpture by artist Jen Stark. Go to her website at www.jenstark.com and be prepared to be AMAZED.
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