10/01/07 Do you think in words or pictures ?
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Do you think in pictures or words ?
When you were born, you had everything you needed to thrive already within. Even before you were born, you most likely heard sounds like music and voices. At birth, you probably came out crying, communicating. I’ve seen reports of unborn infants dreaming when asleep.
Among all your inheritance, was the capacity to learn a verbal language — speak, read, write — and also to think in words. You also inherited a potential to develop and utilize a visual language; to think in images. Both verbal and visual thinking is a birthright potential for all of us.
When you were an infant, you listened to and mouthed the sounds of speaking around you.
Eventually you learned to speak your native language well enough to communicate: to hear and speak. Though you had the capacity — there was a “frame” in your brain for speech — it didn’t come automatically without learning.
These weren’t “art” in the usual sense, but were your discoveries of what you could make: marks. Can you imagine how it might have been for the first prehistoric human to first scratch in the dust ? Suddenly he sees what HE has created. What is that mark, that thing ? Maybe he was filled with a strange new power. And he showed someone else.
When you spilled food or grasped a crayon, as a baby, you began to make marks perhaps in the same way. Could be there was a moment of magical discovery that you made something. Then someone may have asked you as a child, what it was supposed to be. Bam ! An assumption was imposed. This is suppose to “be” something, whatever that means. A limit to your new creative feeling of power.
Then, you might have made marks on a wall, or a floor. And other limits were imposed on your discoveries. Later, at school, even more judgment stopped you short, from children and teachers alike.
Between the ages of roughly 9 to11, is often called the crisis period.
It is natural for children to have a passion for realistic drawing. This coincides with the time that their brains’ left mode ( the state of conception) is dominant. The “left mode” is no good at drawing, yet they are passionately learning to see reality. Those of us who happen to find the knack of shifting between modes, continue to draw.
Prehistoric humans made drawings on cave walls.
Some are as fresh and lively as any made today, yet there was not any written word. We do not know how developed was the spoken word, but these drawings are thought to have been for various reasons: to communicate a successful hunt, to illustrate killed animals, or to serve a visionary purpose, but probably not to decorate the cave.
Some are as fresh and lively as any made today, yet there was not any written word. We do not know how developed was the spoken word, but these drawings are thought to have been for various reasons: to communicate a successful hunt, to illustrate killed animals, or to serve a visionary purpose, but probably not to decorate the cave.We have all been touched to some degree by road blocks to our visual communication.
How can you recover your lost potential, if you are among the wounded ?
You could play.
Let’s suppose you are visiting Venice, Italy. You’ve bought a phrase book and are getting around just fine in restaurants, cafes, and tours. But it’s getting pretty lonely watching couples strolling around together.
One evening, sitting in an outdoor café, you see a meltingly handsome (beautiful) man (woman) sitting at the next table. What to do without fluent Italian ? You flip through your well worn phrase book, past phrases like :”Don’t put a wet spoon in the baking powder”, but nothing is anywhere near useful.
As he (she) approaches you, your whole body seems to melt when you hear a mellow stream of Italian directed at you.
What can you do ?
I’ll bet, all things being equal, you wouldn’t forego this opportunity to make the dream friend of your life. (It’s okay, this is only an imaginary scene.) Wouldn’t you allow nature to take its course, or at least make a stab at communicating in some sort of universal language of which you have no knowledge ?
You could take this scenario to use as a “training run” right now. Find a willing partner, and be yourselves, or assume a role of your own choosing. You could be just yourself. The idea of this visual conversation, is to invent marks which don’t yet exist, to “say” whatever you feel like saying. Ready ?
3. Decide who will start any conversation. The other watches intently, patiently.
4. Make an opening remark by inventing marks, with unique symbolic meanings and composing these marks in patterns according to your own device. When you feel finished, put down your crayon.
5. Then it is your partner’s turn to respond with invented marks of her own. Continue taking turns this way for no more than 15 minutes.
The magic is you will understand what is being discussed.
After a brief time, let yourselves talk about what happened. You will probably be bursting to switch into words.
Every time you engage in this inventive play, it will be completely different. Try it often with many different people. Change roles from your usual way of being leader, blender, compromiser, to challenger, confronter, and so on.
You may discover an unknown resource you have for creative communication. (The handsome Italian might have some creative marks for you too.) All good fun, but also a very real situation where you have no pre-learned way of communicating. Necessity is the mother of invention, and a powerful motivator. There’s no way of knowing what’s up your creative sleeve, until you try it.
Hw dd u lk ths ar-tickle ? Phffft ? Or, Ooh, la-la, mama mia ! ?
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Do you think in pictures or words ?
When you were born, you had everything you needed to thrive already within. Even before you were born, you most likely heard sounds like music and voices. At birth, you probably came out crying, communicating. I’ve seen reports of unborn infants dreaming when asleep.
Among all your inheritance, was the capacity to learn a verbal language — speak, read, write — and also to think in words. You also inherited a potential to develop and utilize a visual language; to think in images. Both verbal and visual thinking is a birthright potential for all of us.
When you were an infant, you listened to and mouthed the sounds of speaking around you.
Eventually you learned to speak your native language well enough to communicate: to hear and speak. Though you had the capacity — there was a “frame” in your brain for speech — it didn’t come automatically without learning.
These weren’t “art” in the usual sense, but were your discoveries of what you could make: marks. Can you imagine how it might have been for the first prehistoric human to first scratch in the dust ? Suddenly he sees what HE has created. What is that mark, that thing ? Maybe he was filled with a strange new power. And he showed someone else.
When you spilled food or grasped a crayon, as a baby, you began to make marks perhaps in the same way. Could be there was a moment of magical discovery that you made something. Then someone may have asked you as a child, what it was supposed to be. Bam ! An assumption was imposed. This is suppose to “be” something, whatever that means. A limit to your new creative feeling of power.
Then, you might have made marks on a wall, or a floor. And other limits were imposed on your discoveries. Later, at school, even more judgment stopped you short, from children and teachers alike.
Between the ages of roughly 9 to11, is often called the crisis period.
It is natural for children to have a passion for realistic drawing. This coincides with the time that their brains’ left mode ( the state of conception) is dominant. The “left mode” is no good at drawing, yet they are passionately learning to see reality. Those of us who happen to find the knack of shifting between modes, continue to draw.
Prehistoric humans made drawings on cave walls.
Some are as fresh and lively as any made today, yet there was not any written word. We do not know how developed was the spoken word, but these drawings are thought to have been for various reasons: to communicate a successful hunt, to illustrate killed animals, or to serve a visionary purpose, but probably not to decorate the cave.
Some are as fresh and lively as any made today, yet there was not any written word. We do not know how developed was the spoken word, but these drawings are thought to have been for various reasons: to communicate a successful hunt, to illustrate killed animals, or to serve a visionary purpose, but probably not to decorate the cave.We have all been touched to some degree by road blocks to our visual communication.
How can you recover your lost potential, if you are among the wounded ?
You could play.
Let’s suppose you are visiting Venice, Italy. You’ve bought a phrase book and are getting around just fine in restaurants, cafes, and tours. But it’s getting pretty lonely watching couples strolling around together.
One evening, sitting in an outdoor café, you see a meltingly handsome (beautiful) man (woman) sitting at the next table. What to do without fluent Italian ? You flip through your well worn phrase book, past phrases like :”Don’t put a wet spoon in the baking powder”, but nothing is anywhere near useful.
As he (she) approaches you, your whole body seems to melt when you hear a mellow stream of Italian directed at you.
What can you do ?
I’ll bet, all things being equal, you wouldn’t forego this opportunity to make the dream friend of your life. (It’s okay, this is only an imaginary scene.) Wouldn’t you allow nature to take its course, or at least make a stab at communicating in some sort of universal language of which you have no knowledge ?
You could take this scenario to use as a “training run” right now. Find a willing partner, and be yourselves, or assume a role of your own choosing. You could be just yourself. The idea of this visual conversation, is to invent marks which don’t yet exist, to “say” whatever you feel like saying. Ready ?
3. Decide who will start any conversation. The other watches intently, patiently.
4. Make an opening remark by inventing marks, with unique symbolic meanings and composing these marks in patterns according to your own device. When you feel finished, put down your crayon.
5. Then it is your partner’s turn to respond with invented marks of her own. Continue taking turns this way for no more than 15 minutes.
The magic is you will understand what is being discussed.
After a brief time, let yourselves talk about what happened. You will probably be bursting to switch into words.
Every time you engage in this inventive play, it will be completely different. Try it often with many different people. Change roles from your usual way of being leader, blender, compromiser, to challenger, confronter, and so on.
You may discover an unknown resource you have for creative communication. (The handsome Italian might have some creative marks for you too.) All good fun, but also a very real situation where you have no pre-learned way of communicating. Necessity is the mother of invention, and a powerful motivator. There’s no way of knowing what’s up your creative sleeve, until you try it.
Hw dd u lk ths ar-tickle ? Phffft ? Or, Ooh, la-la, mama mia ! ?
If you received this from a friend, you may not know about my free newsletter - “Fresh Horses”.
To subscribe and to receive the bonus of my free guide “How you can draw by learning to see,”
please go to http:www.heartsongstudio.com
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Do you think in pictures or words ?
When you were born, you had everything you needed to thrive already within. Even before you were born, you most likely heard sounds like music and voices. At birth, you probably came out crying, communicating. I’ve seen reports of unborn infants dreaming when asleep.
Among all your inheritance, was the capacity to learn a verbal language — speak, read, write — and also to think in words. You also inherited a potential to develop and utilize a visual language; to think in images. Both verbal and visual thinking is a birthright potential for all of us.
When you were an infant, you listened to and mouthed the sounds of speaking around you.
Eventually you learned to speak your native language well enough to communicate: to hear and speak. Though you had the capacity — there was a “frame” in your brain for speech — it didn’t come automatically without learning.
These weren’t “art” in the usual sense, but were your discoveries of what you could make: marks. Can you imagine how it might have been for the first prehistoric human to first scratch in the dust ? Suddenly he sees what HE has created. What is that mark, that thing ? Maybe he was filled with a strange new power. And he showed someone else.
When you spilled food or grasped a crayon, as a baby, you began to make marks perhaps in the same way. Could be there was a moment of magical discovery that you made something. Then someone may have asked you as a child, what it was supposed to be. Bam ! An assumption was imposed. This is suppose to “be” something, whatever that means. A limit to your new creative feeling of power.
Then, you might have made marks on a wall, or a floor. And other limits were imposed on your discoveries. Later, at school, even more judgment stopped you short, from children and teachers alike.
Between the ages of roughly 9 to11, is often called the crisis period.
It is natural for children to have a passion for realistic drawing. This coincides with the time that their brains’ left mode ( the state of conception) is dominant. The “left mode” is no good at drawing, yet they are passionately learning to see reality. Those of us who happen to find the knack of shifting between modes, continue to draw.
Prehistoric humans made drawings on cave walls.
Some are as fresh and lively as any made today, yet there was not any written word. We do not know how developed was the spoken word, but these drawings are thought to have been for various reasons: to communicate a successful hunt, to illustrate killed animals, or to serve a visionary purpose, but probably not to decorate the cave.
Some are as fresh and lively as any made today, yet there was not any written word. We do not know how developed was the spoken word, but these drawings are thought to have been for various reasons: to communicate a successful hunt, to illustrate killed animals, or to serve a visionary purpose, but probably not to decorate the cave.We have all been touched to some degree by road blocks to our visual communication.
How can you recover your lost potential, if you are among the wounded ?
You could play.
Let’s suppose you are visiting Venice, Italy. You’ve bought a phrase book and are getting around just fine in restaurants, cafes, and tours. But it’s getting pretty lonely watching couples strolling around together.
One evening, sitting in an outdoor café, you see a meltingly handsome (beautiful) man (woman) sitting at the next table. What to do without fluent Italian ? You flip through your well worn phrase book, past phrases like :”Don’t put a wet spoon in the baking powder”, but nothing is anywhere near useful.
As he (she) approaches you, your whole body seems to melt when you hear a mellow stream of Italian directed at you.
What can you do ?
I’ll bet, all things being equal, you wouldn’t forego this opportunity to make the dream friend of your life. (It’s okay, this is only an imaginary scene.) Wouldn’t you allow nature to take its course, or at least make a stab at communicating in some sort of universal language of which you have no knowledge ?
You could take this scenario to use as a “training run” right now. Find a willing partner, and be yourselves, or assume a role of your own choosing. You could be just yourself. The idea of this visual conversation, is to invent marks which don’t yet exist, to “say” whatever you feel like saying. Ready ?
3. Decide who will start any conversation. The other watches intently, patiently.
4. Make an opening remark by inventing marks, with unique symbolic meanings and composing these marks in patterns according to your own device. When you feel finished, put down your crayon.
5. Then it is your partner’s turn to respond with invented marks of her own. Continue taking turns this way for no more than 15 minutes.
The magic is you will understand what is being discussed.
After a brief time, let yourselves talk about what happened. You will probably be bursting to switch into words.
Every time you engage in this inventive play, it will be completely different. Try it often with many different people. Change roles from your usual way of being leader, blender, compromiser, to challenger, confronter, and so on.
You may discover an unknown resource you have for creative communication. (The handsome Italian might have some creative marks for you too.) All good fun, but also a very real situation where you have no pre-learned way of communicating. Necessity is the mother of invention, and a powerful motivator. There’s no way of knowing what’s up your creative sleeve, until you try it.
Hw dd u lk ths ar-tickle ? Phffft ? Or, Ooh, la-la, mama mia ! ?
If you received this from a friend, you may not know about my free newsletter - “Fresh Horses”.
To subscribe and to receive the bonus of my free guide “How you can draw by learning to see,”
please go to http:www.heartsongstudio.com
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