Creative Post Final 

Bridging my path through Arts and Medicine depicted by the painting titled ”Purpose”. Continuing my journey with this painting, it becomes clear I should share my motivation. Browsing through the internet thinking about this project and looking for inspiration I paused in the architectural pages. The photo that caught my eye regarding a journey was an escalator flowing through a glass enclosure supported by circular beams. I held this image in my mind as I thought how transparent my journey has been.   The journey started as a five-year-old child with a desire to become a nurse and artist. In designing the background, I am reminded of my roots seeing farm lands from an aerial view. Each field a total composite of something greater integrated as the creation of a patchwork design which is my life. The geometric shapes create a matrix working together to help complete my goals represented by the semicircle or arches over my pathway. Feeling that every moment has been piece milled together in the past and present to ignite the force driving the elevation of the journey of life or my purpose. Another metaphor would be quilting which is a colorful sense of play with fabrics in commitment in a creative organization. Heidegger uses this patchwork process in a more philosophical way in Meaning of Suffering stating “the situations of everyday activities with their embedded knowing, which involves the person-world that both shapes us and is shaped by us” (Scholler-Jaquish, 2007).

My first step away evaluation of the composition was that I used many hard corners as the background and that I should interject more evidence of contour plowing keeping with landscape scenario by incorporating the use of roundness and circle. When I synch this aesthetic observation with my emotional one, I synthesized that hard corners and circles were symbols of what I am all about because nothing has ever been easy. Reflecting corners and slopes of my journey has certainly molded me into who I am today.

                First-year graduate program memories reviewed as I recall a bit of scrambling in the first class trying to learn about Canvas. Even now Canvas is revealing new things to me.  The secret blogging experience was a challenge for most of us as I recall. The deepest understanding regarding Art came from Ellen Dissanayake book “What Is Art For?” planting my takeaway memory art is to make special (Dissanayake, 1988). No formal training in typing or computer my technical skills has always been a challenge, thinking an improvement would come with this class and I do have to say my ability is better now than when first started. Insights into utilizing the creative process have only strengthened as I recognize this practice truly heals.

References

Dissanayake, E. (1988). What Is Art For? Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press.

Scholler-Jaquish, N. E. (2007). Meaning in Suffering Caring Practices in the Health Professions. Retrieved from https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=1DPdcxwz6gQC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP1: