CREATIVITY & INTROSPECTION

hello! & welcome to my MFA thesis exploration//discovery//process I am exploring the introspective experience as inspiration for creativity/design. Understanding the emotional components of design, creativity can be fostered as a process (lifestyle), and not a product (end). ET Roberts + MFA Graphic Design, SCAD - Spring 2014

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The Power of belief -- mindset and success | Eduardo Briceno

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For too long, the creative world has focused on idea generation at the expense of idea execution. As the legendary inventor Thomas Edison famously said, "Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration." To make great ideas a reality, we must act, experiment, fail, adapt, and learn on a daily basis.

99U's philosophy from book - Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus & Sharpen Your Creative Mind

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Working on a new illustration series! #femmefatale #process #workinprogress #wip #mixedmedia #liztroberts http://ift.tt/WoOgJu

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FINAL ABSTRACT : Talent & Creativity

Talent & Creativity

Parallels between talent and creativity, explore new ways of approaching the process of creativity. Challenging the myths, talent and creativity, as intrinsic qualities, redefines how to access them. Like talent, creativity is a skill built through precise, quality practice. Visualization is a technique used by elite athletes to achieve skill and performance. This exercise reveals relationships between perception, introspection, and creativity. Utilizing visualization as an educational tool expands the creative thinking processes through self-actualization, empathy, and storytelling. This methodology develops opportunities, which challenge perception and introspection, fostering alternative ways of seeing. Value should not placed on knowledge, as much as it should be on abstract thinking. As the value of creativity rises the importance of fostering it also increases. As society continues to pursue new and complex problems, creativity will become the key component for developing solutions.

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Follow Up!

I will continue to post documentation of my process as well as the success from my visual thesis exhibition. Stay tuned!

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Officially completed!

Officially my written thesis has been approved by SCAD! Thank you to everyone who has made this roller coaster experience possible! If you are interested in reading my thesis or would like to follow up on it, please don't hesitate to contact me : [email protected] 

While I have submitted my thesis to graduate, I know that this exploration is far from over and the journey will continue on! 

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Thumbs up graduation round 2!! #scaduation #graduation #mfathesis #mfa #wedidit! May 31, 2014 at 08:06AM

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Alumni concert round 2! #mfathesis #graduating #scad May 30, 2014 at 08:45PM

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Wolf spirit - glimpses from my #mfathesis show! Thanks to all that came out! May 27, 2014 at 10:14AM

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Wolf spirit #mfathesis May 22, 2014 at 08:46AM

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#mfathesis breakthroughs #process May 09, 2014 at 12:05AM

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spirit (n)

 : the force within a person that is believed to give the body life, energy, and power

 : the inner quality or nature of a person

 : a person

 : the nonphysical part of a person that is the seat of emotions and character; the soul.

 : a person identified with their most prominent mental or moral characteristics or with their role in a group or movement.

 : a specified emotion or mood, especially one prevailing at a particular time.

 : the quality of courage, energy, and determination or assertiveness.

 : the real meaning or the intention behind something as opposed to its strict verbal interpretation.

 : the attitude or intentions with which someone undertakes or regards something.

 (v) : convey rapidly and secretly.

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Seeing (verb) :

 : discern or deduce mentally after reflection or from information; understand.

 : ascertain after inquiring, considering, or discovering an outcome.

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Emotion

 : instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge.

- from French émotion, from émouvoir ‘excite,’ based on Latin emovere, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out’ + movere ‘move.’ 

^ move // movement // motion // emotion is physical ...

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Abstract (adj) :

 : existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.

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creativity & new ways of seeing

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Success is based upon a spiritual quality, a power to inspire others.

Vince Lombardi