There is a theory in neuroscience pertaining to the artist and creativity - your last three photos [leaves, branches, bark] all relate very well to that above-mentioned science. I'll try not to overtalk this interesting research. Creativity in all fields appears to be right-brain dominant, an area of the brain not entirely dependent on logic, on sequential and ordered steps but, among other things, upon pattern recognition designed by evolutionary pressure hundreds of thousands of years ago. It's a "simple" survival mechanism, detecting patterns in a predatory environment where the next bite well mean the end of your life. All humans, and to some extent animals, exhibit this pattern recognition ability otherwise they would not survive. Artists, like you Heather, full of creativity, are all about finding new and interesting patterns in both meaningful and meaningless backgrounds [called "noise" by the researchers]. You hear/see that noise differently than most people. You are not a logic machine cranking out "products" strictly defined by cognitive algorithms, for then nothing would be discovered, nothing would be revealed to view. Your trees would merely be biological entities not inspiring works of art. You are able, so goes the research, to think outside the box, to connect the dots however disjointed they may seem to others. You see many patterns, novel patterns and use them to generate your art, your wondrous art. Again, look at those last three photographs. Science digging into you - yes, interesting you are, Heather.
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There is a theory in neuroscience pertaining to the artist and creativity - your last three photos [leaves, branches, bark] all relate very well to that above-mentioned science. I'll try not to overtalk this interesting research.
ReplyDeleteCreativity in all fields appears to be right-brain dominant, an area of the brain not entirely dependent on logic, on sequential and ordered steps but, among other things, upon pattern recognition designed by evolutionary pressure hundreds of thousands of years ago. It's a "simple" survival mechanism, detecting patterns in a predatory environment where the next bite well mean the end of your life. All humans, and to some extent animals, exhibit this pattern recognition ability otherwise they would not survive. Artists, like you Heather, full of creativity, are all about finding new and interesting patterns in both meaningful and meaningless backgrounds [called "noise" by the researchers]. You hear/see that noise differently than most people. You are not a logic machine cranking out "products" strictly defined by cognitive algorithms, for then nothing would be discovered, nothing would be revealed to view. Your trees would merely be biological entities not inspiring works of art. You are able, so goes the research, to think outside the box, to connect the dots however disjointed they may seem to others. You see many patterns, novel patterns and use them to generate your art, your wondrous art. Again, look at those last three photographs.
Science digging into you - yes, interesting you are, Heather.