Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage
Flexibility and Adaptation
A course by Hanoch Piven , Mixed Media Artist
About the video: Flexibility and Adaptation
Overview
“To be creative you need to be flexible, adaptable and forgiving - with yourself and with your project. Your project will never be exactly what you have imagined earlier. It will be different and better. We all fall in love with our own initial ideas. Many times that love prevents us from advancing to more sophisticated ones. If you stop with the first ideas that have, you will not arrive to the new ideas which are awaiting and, most likely, will be better. Luckily when making a collage, we can encourage flexibility by extending the period before the ‘glueing’ arrives. Flexibility of thought helps us escaping prejudices. Being creative is about listening to what is in front of you and not what was supposed to be. You know better because you are here and know what your project needs. ”
In this video lesson Hanoch Piven addresses the topic: Flexibility and Adaptation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage. Discover a playful process to unleash and expand your creativity through the creation of portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“FLEXIBILITY AND ADAPTATION In this lesson I want to talk about flexibility, about adaptation. It's really about forgiveness, about forgiving yourself and your project. Your project will never be exactly the way you had imagined it before, it will be different. Probably, it will also be better. But if you are stuck with the first idea that you had and you don't accept that the process might take you to a new place, those great ideas will never happen. It happens to everyone, it happens to me too. I also fall in love with my first idea and I think that it looks great and everything is great, ...”
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Course summary for: Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Collage, Creating with Kids
Hanoch Piven
A course by Hanoch Piven
Hanoch Piven is an award-winning illustrator, educator, and seasoned creative instigator. Piven’s artwork is unique in both form and method. By reinventing the meaning and use of everyday objects he forges associations between these and the subject of his creation.
Piven's art is playful, inclusive, and transformative. Since 1992, Piven's work has been published in newspapers and magazines across the world, such as Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, London Times, Der Spiegel, and Israel's Haaretz. Piven is also the author of a series of award-winning children's books and apps, TV shows, interactive exhibitions, and advertising campaigns.
Piven has lectured extensively on creativity and its applications to life in diverse platforms across the world. Amongst them are The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Business School, Teach for All Global Conference, Duke University, The School of Visual Arts, China Academy of Fine Arts, Art Center of Design, Instituto Europeo di Design, and many more.
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