It is the actively utilizing Anyone who seeks
It is a way of crafting and exploring of the
stories, creating images imagination. Artists and
and symbols from fleeting artisans use their
moments, connecting with imaginations when
people, understanding creating art. It is a
culture, and the valuable tool along with
embodiment of inspiration to connect
with the soul to produce
understanding and peace.
an artwork.
experience and
exploration of art
making regardless of skill
can be involved in
soulmaking. It occurs
anytime, takes place
when there is an
engagement among
someone in real time and
life, and space.
 Purpose

Knowing
Oneself

Depth
and
Essence

Everyday
Life
It pertains to the creation of visual
representations of images through different
methods in different forms such as drawing,
painting, and sculpting.
The moment someone writes and
inscribes thoughts, ideas, criticisms, life
values, and emotions is already crafting
their own story.
“a bridge toward the unknown” because through the
melodic narrative the instruments produce, it
transcends our feelings, emotions, and sensations to
another dimension.
 Everything that we do is a performance in
different rhythms and narratives. The pattern
that the life serves provided by a person can be
an inspiration for an artist or artisan.
Techniques can be crafted by an artist/artisan
into different pieces of art by reflecting on
past experiences and explorations.
 communication with the
soul, with other human
beings and non-human we start becoming an expert
beings, and with the world. and grow up with wisdom
It is about finding ourselves looking for the welfare of
settled at one point in life others

Settling Soulmaking
Surrendering
Seeking the service in the soul begins in the
midst of crashing; capacity to Soaring
the recognition and surrender is limited to the level of by enabling to pass up
acknowledgement that pain and uncertainty we can endure; soulmaking, we start soaring
each of us who is it takes us up and throws us down. It and conquer our worldly
interested in directs us to accept the wounds we experiences of the physical
growth is a seeker bear and forces us to live in the actualities
darkness
 “The desire to know is natural to good men.”
— Leonardo Da Vinci

Two Basic Questions:

What if …
How come?
a life approach marked by
curiosity that is ravenous and an
Here are some ways to apprehend Curiosita:
unyielding need for further ● A Hundred Questions
learning/ higher knowledge ● Ten Power Questions
● Daily Themes
 The commitment, dedication and
willingness to test out knowledge
through experiment, experience and
perseverance and learn from mistakes.
This principle is the incorporation of
a. Test every idea “controlling your
b. Don't take anything for granted own life
c. Experience life first hand
d. Evaluate your level of through your own hands”.
independence
 It is the continuous improvement of the senses,
particularly the sense of sight, as a way to
enrich experience.

“Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is

dependent upon hearing, the sense
which comes second … painting excels and ranks higher
than music, because it does not
fade away as soon as it is born.…”
Is a willingness to
embrace
uncertainty,
paradox, and
ambiguity.
Is the growth of an equilibrium
between logic and imagination,
as well as science and art. It
is the notion of the whole brain
thinking.

Left Brained: Right Brained:

● I am highly imaginative am good at
brainstorming
● I love to doodle
● I often say or do the unexpected
● I rely on intuition
● I often lose track of time
● I like details
● I am almost always on time
● I rely on logic
● I am skilled at math
● I am organized and disciplined
● I like lists
The cultivation of beauty,
natural talent, fitness and grace.
It is the balance of maintaining a
healthy mind as well as a healthy
body.
This is simply the acknowledgement and
appreciation of the connections between
different things and occurrences.
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CURIOSITA
Narrative means the choice of
events to be linked and to
relate – so, instead of a story
itself, it is a depiction or
particular manifestation of the
story.
The easiest way to remind
people of the distinction
between a story and a narrative
is to change events' sequence.
You have a new version of the
same past with a different case
sequence.
 The narrative translates
the story into facts, or
better, understanding for
the receiver (the viewer
or the reader).
Every story incident is a unit
of information provided by the
viewer. A story is paradoxical
since it tries to express the
facts by covering it.
Appropriations in art and art history refer to artists’ work
utilizing prior artifacts or pictures of Painting with no
initial transformation.
In the 1985.Book, The Avant-
Garde originalité and Other
Modernist Myths, the
American writer Rosalind
Krauss assisted Artists in the
adaptation of the 1934 article
by the German philosopher
Walter Benjamin, The Practice
of Art In the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction.
Since the 1980s, artists have
used the appropriation
extensively.

refers to anything associated with a group of people
based on their ethnicity, religion, geography, or
social environment. This might include beliefs,
traditions, language, objects, ideas, behaviors,
customs, values, or institutions.
is when someone adopts an element of a culture with the
sole purpose of humiliating or putting down people of
that culture. The most obvious example of this is
blackface, which originated to denigrate and dehumanize
Black people by perpetuating negative stereotypes.
refers to taking something that doesn't belong to you
or your culture. In the case of cultural
appropriation, it is an exchange that happens when a
dominant group takes or "borrows" something from a
minority group that has historically been exploited or
oppressed.
is the respectful borrowing of elements
from another culture with an interest in
sharing ideas and diversifying oneself.
• Dehumanizes oppressed
groups
• Takes without permission
• Perpetuates stereotypes
• Ignores the meaning and the
stories behind the cultural
elements
• Celebrates culture in a respectful
way
• Ask permission, provides credits,
and offer compensation
• Elevates the voices and
experiences of the members of a
cultural group
• Focuses on learning the stories
and, meanings behind cultural
elements
 Cultural appropriation is You may see it in clothing,
-Members of one culture dance, mannerisms,
the inappropriate or
(outsiders) take for their vocabulary, accents,
unacknowledged adoption behaviors, makeup,
own, or their use, items
of an element or elements produced by a member or hairstyles, trends, and
of one culture or identity members of another more. You encounter it in
by members of another culture (insiders). the workplace, music
culture or identity. festivals, parties, and even
just walking down the
street.
This form is defined as a reciprocal exchange
between two cultures that are approximately
equal in terms of power and dominance.
This type involves a dominant culture taking elements
of a subordinate culture that has had a dominant
culture forced upon it.
This type is defined as taking cultural elements of a
subordinate culture without compensation,
permission, or reciprocity.
This form involves taking and combining
elements of multiple cultures, making it
difficult to identify and credit the source.
 Context Style
Appropriation Appropriation

Object
Appropriation
Subject
Motif Appropriation
Appropriation
 Owning an object
which is not is the latency of objects for
culturally appropriation as works of art. A motif
significant to you.
may be repeated, copied, in a pattern or
design, often many times for
Object appropriation occurs appropriation use.
when the possession of a
tangible work of art (such as a
sculpture or a painting) is
transferred from members of
one culture to members of
another culture.
2 occurs when an artist has made
significant reuse of an idea
first expressed in the work of
an artist from another culture.
A musician who sings the songs
of another culture has engaged
in content appropriation, as
has a writer who retells stories
produced by a culture other
than his own.
 3
is a kind of cultural
appropriation. It
occurs when a person
uses stylistic
innovations
distinctive of a
cultural group that is
not their own.
 is related to style
appropriation, but only
basic motifs are
It occurs when artists
are influenced by the art appropriated.
of a culture other than
their own without
creating works in the
same style.
 also known as
Voice
Appreciation

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when this sort of
appropriation
occurs no artistic
product of culture
is appropriated Instead, artists
appropriate a
subject matter,
namely another
culture or some
of its members.