Creative Spark

Creative Spark

Luis Wiley

PHL/458

6/2/2014

Russell Warner

Abstract

Janet Echelman has made paintings, which sadly went missing, now she has found a new way of showing how wonderful the creative mind can be, is it visual, mental, vocal, colorful or all of the above. She shows just how powerful a creative mind can be, with or without the approval of everyone that did not see it in her.

Creative Spark

Janet Echelman shows that the mind can be limitless when given the opportunity, when the mind is given the chance, it can adapt and overcome every situation, as with Janet’s situation when moving to India, and relocating her paintings. In a sad and maybe a good reason, her paintings became lost in transit to India. This gave Janet a different idea in creative thinking, while seeing local fishermen, she had gotten the idea to express herself using something that was right in front of her, and when manipulated right, will never be the same twice ever again, always changing, always beautiful all over again. Janet took her ideas to Portugal, where her first engineered and manufactured sculpture was made, and given life, her ideas and creative mind at its peak, when you see your imagination put on a canvas or in her case a city is nothing more than amazing. When designing these unique and at times massive net sculptures, it is nothing less than breathtaking to see such a beautiful work of art, to see the wind and earth constantly changing, manipulating and giving life to something so simple. This is just showing how easy it is to expand your mind given the right push, so to speak. The mind is just like the net sculptures Janet creates, always changing, adapting to the surroundings and turning imagination into reality. After seeing the video on Janet’s journey and success now as a artist, is amazing. It shows that the mind is easy to expand and show its creativity as long as there are no so called “road blocks” in the mind, barriers that we create to just get through the day. I have felt that for a very long time, I never looked at myself as creative or expressive, over the last few years I have been on a journey just as Janet has been on, and as each mind is different so is each story and outcome, I have over the last few years been able to open mind and get rid of the blocks and repetitive day to day activites that I felt that were limiting my mind, not giving me the chance to change and see what my mind when given the opportunity has to offer. I have read several books from “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill to “The Power” by Rhonda Byrne and other books to expand the mind on different levels, I know for a fact that these tools in my mind have helped me not only now but in the long run as a thinker and a person that needs to open their mind. I have showed some of these books and teachings that I have learned to others to try to help with them, to break that cycle of day to day activity and mind set, to show that the mind is much more than we can ever see or expect. My family has set this style of living in my mind that I thought was right, since I was a kid and even as teen and early adult, but as I said over the years I have seen a difference an expanded mind that can show much more than I could a few moments ago, because as Janet’s work, that is always changing, adapting, learning that is how my mind is, especially in a creative state, I have only just learned of the different brain waves that are reached, if it is the beta state, that is normal, conscious state of reasoning, thinking and logic. The alpha is when you are more in a deep state of relaxation which can heighten the minds state of imagination, memory and learning. These need to be tough to our school systems, mainly our public schools like the ones I came from, I feel these opportunities can open the minds of all, just as I am learning and Janet has expressed in her sculptures. After seening Janet’s story, I can only wait to share my story with others of what I have accomplished, but as any one I just need to wait patiently for my time to shine.