"I'll Be Your Wings To Fly Away, & You'll Be Mine, Together We'll Fly High. High Away From This Dungeon Where We Can Be Free Like Birds." -Chantele Fetterly.
Art Word of the Week: Creativity
Just as I've discussed in my last blog, there are many definitions for creativity. For this blog, the definition I will choose to use is a definition I feel will appropriately fit the creativity of my late best friend Chantele Fetterly. It will also relate to the way she used her poems as a mode of communication. This definition is "the ability to see things in a new way" (Fox & Schirrmacher, 2009, p. 6). Chantele took the situations she had gone through and was able to interpret into words that sound like a beautiful song. This was her way of having the ability to see things in a new way. I also needed the ability to see things in a new way because she used her poems to tell her problems to me. This will be discussed more later on in the blog which I am about to go in to right now....
I've decided to use a different area of art today to blog about. This is because it perfectly fits the description of the title "my creative inspiration". The words you see above is a part of a poem my best friend had written when she was 15 years old. We both were very into writing poems and diaries when we were that age, I always thought she was so much better at writing poems though. Nevertheless she always encouraged me to continue to write my thoughts down on paper, and always gave me positive feedback for the poems I had shown her. She has always been the greatest inspiration of creativity for me before the birth of my daughter. Her ability to put words together to express herself in so many intriguing ways always left me in awe. Both of us have been through so many hard times in life, her's way more than mine with the few years that she lived. These poems helped us temporarily free ourselves from the problems we had. And when we shared it with each other it was just another way of confiding in each other because she understood me so well, and vise versa.
Just as I've discussed in my last blog, there are many definitions for creativity. For this blog, the definition I will choose to use is a definition I feel will appropriately fit the creativity of my late best friend Chantele Fetterly. It will also relate to the way she used her poems as a mode of communication. This definition is "the ability to see things in a new way" (Fox & Schirrmacher, 2009, p. 6). Chantele took the situations she had gone through and was able to interpret into words that sound like a beautiful song. This was her way of having the ability to see things in a new way. I also needed the ability to see things in a new way because she used her poems to tell her problems to me. This will be discussed more later on in the blog which I am about to go in to right now....
I've decided to use a different area of art today to blog about. This is because it perfectly fits the description of the title "my creative inspiration". The words you see above is a part of a poem my best friend had written when she was 15 years old. We both were very into writing poems and diaries when we were that age, I always thought she was so much better at writing poems though. Nevertheless she always encouraged me to continue to write my thoughts down on paper, and always gave me positive feedback for the poems I had shown her. She has always been the greatest inspiration of creativity for me before the birth of my daughter. Her ability to put words together to express herself in so many intriguing ways always left me in awe. Both of us have been through so many hard times in life, her's way more than mine with the few years that she lived. These poems helped us temporarily free ourselves from the problems we had. And when we shared it with each other it was just another way of confiding in each other because she understood me so well, and vise versa.
There's creativity in the way she put her words together, and in the way we found a way to communicate our problems with each other. Chantele had been way more mature than me, because of the life experiences she endured. For her to just come out and flatly tell me what she was going through at times would have been too intense and painful for me to bear. Her poem would give me an idea of what is going on at the moment in her life, it would reveal just as much as she would want me to. For example, with the words written at the top of this page, it was around the times when times were really hard. "so we can be free from this dungeon" gave me an idea that life at the time was overwhelming for her. She's gone to rest now though, but her words live on. And she continues to inspire me in every way. When I feel at times when I'm being closed minded I try to view things through her eyes and it always helps by helping me become more open minded. Not only does she inspire me to be more creative, but a better individual in general.
R.I.P Chantele <3 :).
Schirrmacher, R. , & Englebright Fox, J. . (2009). Art & creative development for young children. Belmont, California : Delmar Cengage Learning.
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