Wonderful! A comment with a few moments' thought behind it... in fact, I'd almost call it a completed verse now...
one happy accident leads to another, in this case... this is what I love about the so-called Gestalt Process; the "whole" can become greater than the sum of its "parts"...
I thrive on words. your own certainly are thought provoking & worthwhile. thank you ! am writing on a tiny tiny screen so please excuse the no caps thingie. my mind lurches about a bit thinking about ' sum of parts' concept. I grasp it more intuitively than intellectually.
same project parameters given to individual people produces random individual results... team those same people up on the same project, the result far exceeds any result possible from any single member of the group, and also exceeds the combined output of the individuals making up the group...
basically, if you keep bouncing an idea around the table with a bunch of "creators", the final product will combine the best of ALL the participants into something greater still... in short, they can create a monster (or a miracle)...
yes...yes.funny- am unexpectedly thinking of Brownian motion.the concept starts in one ' locale' so to speak. then it just expands, subtly yet inexorably. person to person...synapse & brilliantine. kind of spectacular in the end, what can happen.shape of dreams when it's wieldy...when it flows. think of all the times the process may not have been seen clearly for what it offered ...I wonder what has been lost.
I think I accidentally touched the emoticons- if one ends up here it' s trespassing !
although group work sounds intriguing I remain randomly individual. ha.
that's a large part of what makes the "gestalt" work... a meeting of divergent psyches, intellects and talents...
if everyone followed the same rules, the process would only be capable of producing a mundanity, rather than a miracle... thus, the diversities work FOR the greater whole, not against it...!
I spent most of the 1980 and 90s working and creating with Musicians... the graphic skills didn't take shape until the turn of the century (and might never have done, but for a terribly well-timed spinal injury)...
It's the only thing I've ever done that I seem to be able to get "right" more often than "wrong"... and, yes, most forms of art seems to resonate with something very deeply ingrained in my makeup which allows ME to function (more or less) creatively...
in fact, I'd almost call it a completed verse now...
one happy accident leads to another, in this case...
this is what I love about the so-called Gestalt Process;
the "whole" can become greater than the sum of its "parts"...
many thanks for this!
my mind lurches about a bit thinking about ' sum of parts' concept. I grasp it more intuitively than intellectually.
same project parameters given to individual people produces
random individual results...
team those same people up on the same project, the result
far exceeds any result possible from any single member of the group,
and also exceeds the combined output of the individuals making up the group...
basically, if you keep bouncing an idea around the table with a bunch of "creators", the final product will combine the best of ALL the participants into something greater still... in short, they can create a monster (or a miracle)...
...I wonder what has been lost.
I think I accidentally touched the emoticons- if one ends up here it' s trespassing !
although group work sounds intriguing I remain randomly individual. ha.
if everyone followed the same rules, the process would only be capable of producing a mundanity, rather than a miracle...
thus, the diversities work FOR the greater whole, not against it...!
we enjoy so much but we're losing alot,esp.in the natural world.
sounds like you have enjoyed the pleasures & challenges of creative work with others. you speak of it richly.
the graphic skills didn't take shape until the turn of the century
(and might never have done, but for a terribly well-timed spinal injury)...
It's the only thing I've ever done that I seem to be able to get "right" more often than "wrong"...
and, yes, most forms of art seems to resonate with something very deeply ingrained in my makeup
which allows ME to function (more or less) creatively...