Pretty Picasso

  It's crazy to me how much your creativity opens up when it comes to making a self-portrait. There's no direct way you can imagine yourself. So at this point, you're able to open up what you see yourself as within your mind and copy that image down, without anyone telling you that you did it incorrectly. 

In this week's class, our goal was to create a self-portrait. In the self-portrait, you had to use what we learned in class about Csikszentmihalyi and his Ten Dimensions of Complexity. For my portrait, I decided to implement the alternative between my imagination and fantasy, and a rooted sense of reality. I often find myself deep in thought, with my imagination and it takes me to a different reality almost, whenever I'm so deep into my imagination. Yet, I know already that I can't really express the many thoughts in my mind into reality because of many factors; being judged, the thoughts not being realistic enough, and even my own anxieties coming into play. This said I bring myself back into reality and keep my mouth shut. Both of these can have positive and negative effects.  

My drawing ;)

In my opinion, having imagination and fantasy, at one end, and having a sense of reality on the other can have both positive and negative effects. According to Csikszentmihalyi,  "Creative people, it seems, are original without being bizarre. The novelty they see is rooted in reality." It's not that I'm not creative enough to say ideas that are considered bizarre, it's that I'm able to sort of "bend" reality almost with my mind and change it into an alternate/ new reality. For example, what you see in the "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" movie. Though there were some more blizzard multiverses he went into like one where he was literally cubed, there were other multiverses that had subtle yet very unique differences from the reality he was in before. That is the position I'm in as a creative person. It's not all the way off the creative spectrum, yet it is creative.

Class: 9.5/10 (felt a bit rushed out of the creative space, but I loved it.)