{"id":19,"date":"2008-06-09T23:56:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T03:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/wordpress\/?p=19"},"modified":"2008-06-09T23:56:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T03:56:28","slug":"taking-a-creativity-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/19\/taking-a-creativity-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Kernan Creativity Workshop – Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n(Kernan, Heisler, Maisel)
\nLast week, I taught my workshop Illuminating Creativity<\/a>. Now I’m taking a workshop on creativity!
\nThis week, my friend Sean Kernan is teaching a special workshop for instructors only at the Maine Media Workshops<\/a> this week. Sean has a very different approach to teaching creativity than I do. He too loves to collaborate. In the past, he’s brought in people like Alan Arkin and the dance company Pilobolus.
\nWho will be taking the workshop with me this week? My wife Ardie. Oh and some guy named Jay Maisel. And another great photographer named Greg Heisler. And another great photographer named Elizabeth Opalenik. And another great photographer named Allison Shaw. And many more! I have no idea what will happen. I just know it will be a great week. Stay tuned! Every day, I’ll try to share at least one highlight here.
\nToday started with meditation. Nice move. It increases awareness. It focusses attention. It reduces judgement. It encourages receptivity. I often think we don’t focus on or speak about enough the states we’re in when we produce work, particularly the states we’re in when we produce our best work and how to get there. Meditation is one key among many. Play is another.
\nOn the first day we played a number of theater games. Walk an imaginary line. Throw an imaginary ball. Play an imaginary game of tug of war. It worked when the participant focussed. It worked better when another participant cooperated with them. The event was changed by the group observing and focussing at the same time. Group dynamics (and how each of us responds to them) are fascinating. Collaboration can be extremely stimulating.
\nWe walked and watched ourselves looking while focussing specifically at things and monitoring peripheral vision simultaneously. Taking notes in class made me even more aware of the elements in play while doing this. A significant new object or space demands attention. Moving objects demand attention. Motion produced by moving your body is less demanding. Focus of attention moves when a stronger pattern is observed. All patterns are contextual (patterns within patterns).
\nWe watched Charlie Rose’s interview with sculptor Richard Serra. Serra speaks very visually about his primary passion – space. Its clear sight is one of the primary senses he experiences space with. At one point in the film he walks through his sculptures and the camera follows while he describes the experience of space produced by his sculpture. His physical gestures as he navigates his labyrinths make a statement like “This is the inside of the outside. This is the outside of the inside.” understandable. His sculptures give us a heightened experience of space. His work offers experiences of archetypes of space.
\nMoving in space seems to be the theme of the day.
\nWhat’s this have to do with making images? Nothing. Everything. None of us expect to make finished work this week. All of us expect to have a better understanding of what it takes to make better work at the end of the week. Sometimes not focussing on a final product, but focussing on the process instead reveals more and in the end, if that understanding is applied later, more work and higher quality work may ultimately be produced.
\nWho’s Sean Kernan? Find out here.<\/a>
\nRead my in depth conversation with Sean here.<\/a><\/a>
\nRead Sean interviewing me here.<\/a>
\nCheck out Sean’s blog entries on the class here.<\/a>
\n<\/a>Check out Sean’s creativity workshops here.<\/a>
\nCheck out my creativity workshop here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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