Creative offerings festival Sunday 18 th October, 2020 Stained - PDF document

18/10/2020 Creative offerings festival Sunday 18 th October, 2020 Stained glass window by Dr Susan Wardell 1 Creati tive of offerings 1) Creativity is not only about writing, art and music • Creativity is about causing anything to come into being that was not there before. 2 1

18/10/2020 2) 2) Wha hat doe does s creativ ivit ity DO O for or us us? ? i. It is very satisfying to turn a picture in our heads into concrete form. ii. We get to make something UNIQUE. iii. Being creative can give us a reason for living, and can sustain us when times are tough and in old age. iv. When we create, it reverses the law of entropy – something ordered is made Birds from scrap metal out of what is disordered. 3 3) 3) Cr Creativ tive work orks hel help enab enable le deep deep tr truth uths s and nd ins nsig ights s to o be be gl glimp mpse sed. d. We can can see the he world orld differently di ly. . Perh rhaps s we can can eve ven gl glimpse se som omethin ing g be beyon ond the he world orld. 4 2

18/10/2020 Art rt • when we frame something, it directs our attention to what we may not have noticed before. • Art is not reality, it is a carefully chosen sub-set of life that by brushstrokes, textures, colours and composition directs our attention and in so doing helps us to see reality differently. • In so doing, Art sometimes changes lives: Henri Nouwen. 5 Mus usic ic 6 3

18/10/2020 Wor ords Words can be used in straightforward ways or in hugely complex ways Simple: “I have measured your land with a tape measure.” Complex (using figurative not literal language): “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons” (T.S. Eliot) 7 In In the the Bible le: Simple prose: “God has heaps of animals and cows.” Poetic: “ for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. ” (Psalm 50:10) 8 4

18/10/2020 Can you bind the chains of Matariki? [the Pleiades] Can you loosen Orion's belt? 9 5