This kind is easy. New Mexico has beautiful skyscapes, you just point the camera and shoot. I have a folder in my computer of "Sky Shots".I discovered pottery in "The Hippie Years". I've stopped and started several times since. The last year or so I've been working with a friend who is a professional potter. She thinks I've found my medium and encourages me to keep working at it, The turtle in the title banner is my work, a combination of simple pottery and painting skills. I actually feel creative when I'm working with the clay and am starting to feel a connection between my brain and the painting on the clay. It is very satisfying when it all comes together.
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I'm really glad to see you back doing pottery and painting!
You asked on the sCenerio if I 'audio-ize' or 'olfacto-ize' for creating images or concepts. While I still have keen hearing, and my ability to detect odors is increasing, they're not the nexus of whatever it is that I _do_ do to 'imagine.' Those senses are most likely to trigger images/memories...
I think I paint those concept/images linguistically...
I was thinking that we may have different ways of triggering images, much like the concept of visual vs kinesthetic learning. And I agree that you probably use language in the same way others use visual images. Perhaps writing is as beneficial to you as "visualization" is to others...
dp-I was talking with my friend Kris who is also my pottery teacher and a newly published writer. (You'd like her!) She suggested the concept of metaphor as an alternative to visualization for someone who paints with language rather than images. It made sense to me. I've invited her to my blog, so maybe she'll come by and expand on the idea for us.
M.C. Richards, a favorite and famous potter/poet, wrote that while we are forming our pots,we are also forming ourselves.To extend that, I wonder if we are also forming ourselves when we are making metaphors, whether it's internal, just in our minds or also external, with written words and formed objects. It seems to be all about causality and action.And what about the "butterfly effect"? If we flap our mouths hard enough here, will our words change someone's thinking elsewhere?
Thanks for opening this up, Nancy!
I learned to read long before school started. Prior to that, things were conveyed verbally. I think that's contributed to my linguistic/metaphoric approach...?
As we've been discussing vizualization these past few days, I've come to the conclusion that I don't use metaphor as an alternative, but rather I use metaphor as the primary mechanism... Mayhaps a semantic difference?
Okay...prolly because I'm fresh full of chemotherapy, some fun images come to mind (and hopefully give me a bit of leeway in the way you read this):
Kris!
...as we all know, speaking louder to a non-English speaker always helped them understand *hehe*
...but 'flapping mouths hard enough here' reminds me more of the tree falling in the forest. I.e., as someone can come upon the fallen tree, another can come upon words smithed electronically. I believe we can be affected by both, in time...
In this day and age, I would have to say, 'yes,' to the question of changing someone's thinking. Over fifteen years of involvement in various online communities has taught me that *nods*
I believe we form ourselves to a great extent, so that would make me part of M.C. Richards' Choir, among others. I'll look forward to seeing you there *smiles* And, I'm already a part of your Metaphoric Choir, woman!
The Butterfly Effect engages me in the same ways that time-travel, parallel universes, spiritual transition, and Mother Nature do... *ponders on*
Thank you for taking time.
Your welcome, and thanks for continuing to participate. I'd like to share the sCenario with kct if that's OK with you, dp. I already promised her a showing of "daWoods in june" during our next pottery session!
I think the metaphor vs visualization is exactly as you stated- you used metaphor instead of visualization. I believe both can accomplish the same purposes, whichever is your best tool is the one to use.
I'm tempted to ask here about today's Chemo, but I'll refrain and check The sCenario later....
*hugs*
Please feel free to share the sCenerio with Kris; I hope she'll feel comfortable in posting.
I noted that I said things here that could well be transferred to the sCenerio; posted things at the Spiritual Laundromat that could be copied, too... *ponders*
We're working on a post for today. The short of it is that it went well and I didn't take an anti-emetic until five minutes ago...
Anyhoo, will see you soon somewhere *grins*
Make nice!
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