Supporting fellow creative earthlings.
I recently stumbled across World Creativity and Innovation week (WCIW) – a worldwide community dedicated to celebrating all forms of creativity. I had always wanted to use part of my blog as a platform to support fellow creatives and so WCIW inspired me to add a dedicated section to my website doing just that.
So I’m very excited to announce the launch of my Friends of Tellurian Treasures interview series!
I am incredibly lucky to have a number of wonderful, inspring people in my life. I’ve initially created Friends of Tellurian Treasures to celebrate them and support them as creatives, but I hope to eventually branch out and interview lots of other inspiring creatives too, so watch this space.
Why am I doing this?
I’m a firm beliver in choosing colaboration over competition. I view the achievements of others as inspiration instead of comparing their achievements to my own. While competition motivates individuals to be better, stronger, faster and smarter, collaboration does all of the above while bringing people together. Collaboration always wins. As creatives, when we support each other and cheer each other on, magical things happen. Although we shouldn’t need permission to create, a little bit of reassurance and encourgaement from time to time doesn’t hurt. So lets make art, not war. Lets create without the hate.
The interviews
Meet Gemma Copp – Architecture Student and Life & Career Coach.
Meet Hannah Pellatt – Graphic Designer and Life & Wellness Coach.
Meet the Revels family – Creators of Meon Shore Crafts and Design.
Side note: Creativity is REALLY important!
Look around you – everything you see is a product of the creative mind – the clothes you’re wearing, the interiors in your home, the phone or laptop you’re probably reading this on. But creativity is not just about art and design, it’s about thinking differently, challenging the norm, taking risks and learning from trial and error. Everything you do can be a creative act – it’s part of your human nature.β
Even if you don’t participate in ‘the arts’, you’re still creative. If you can solve problems, come up with jokes, daydream, cook a tasty meal… ALL of these things are a form of creativity. Creativity is for everyone, not just the few – Not just the ‘gifted’.
I think this quote by Ai Weiwei really hits the nail on the head. Think about it – every child is born curious. Curioisity fuels creativity because it gets us thinking and wondering and trying new things. But then we’re put through a school system that champions high grades and prioritise a few ‘key subjects’ over others. This makes creativity look less important.
The fact is, ALL subjects are important and ALL of them actually require some form of creativity. Yet the subjects that truly teach creativity, like art, design, pilosophy, music, critical thinking, etc… are all pushed down on the priority list. There is this common idea in schools where if you’re not performing well in the ‘core subjects’ you’re perceived as ‘less intellegent’, ‘less cpabale’ and thought to have ‘less potential’ than your overachieving peers. (I know this feeling all too well.) Imagine if ‘Creative Thinking’ was a ‘core subject’ in schools.
So as we grow older, finish school, graduate university and get a job, life often becomes more serious with less time for play, but it shouldn’t have to be this way. In fact, life should be a journey of discovery all the way up until our final days. So if school left you beliving that you don’t have potential or that your creativity wasn’t important or even that you’re not creative at all, I’m telling you now – it’s not true. You have potential and your ideas and thoughts and passions matter and are valid. NEVER give up on them.
So join me in celebrating creativity and it’s importance in societies and cultures all over the world. Letβs encourage each other to use our creative power, to explore new ideas, to make new decisions and contribute towards making the world (and our place in it) better through creative thinking.
In the words of Bob and Roberta Smith – All schools should be art schools.
…and lets not forget, that only through creative thinking and creative living do we stand a chance of saving our beautiful planet from a gloomy future!! Thatβs how damn important creativity is.
Thanks for stopping by.
Have a beautiful day
~ Faine