He was and isn't the only late 20th / early 21st Century artist to see
creative possibilities in the phenomenon of light; Wedgework V (1975), part of a series Turrell began in 1969, in which he caused light to fall across spaces so as to divide them diagonally, creating seemingly palpable planes and surfaces, was installed in the recent Light Show at London's Hayward Gallery alongside light - based works by a group of international artists that included Olafur Eliasson, Jenny Holzer and Dan Flavin.
This exhibition of Thorner's soft sculpture is relevant to a special local context, and is a reference for exploring
the creative possibilities in Hong Kong.
Informative essays and numerous illustrations demonstrate how the editions are an independent, major part of Richter's oeuvre, offering the artist an opportunity to reach a larger audience while simultaneously exploring
creative possibilities in diverse and experimental ways.Gerhard Richter (born 1932) fled from East to West Germany in 1961 and studied in Düsseldorf.
The creative possibilities in each situation differ from every other situation.
Some may think such
creative possibility in interpretation is an aberration to be avoided.
Not exact matches
The same way a
creative advertisement or guerrilla marketing campaign (which should be part of the entrepreneurial arsenal, even though the lion's share of budget should go toward direct response advertising that has trackable results) is meant to get your attention, so too is the initial schmooze with a prospect supposed to be worthy of the attention they have given you — exciting them at the
possibilities you have shown them, and delivered
in an educational and entertaining way that leaves them fascinated and wanting more.
With the
possibility of a makeover
in mind, we reached out to some of Canada's most
creative bakeries to ask: What would you do if given the chance to revamp the Twinkie?
The more open you are to
possibility, the more
creative you become and the more expansive of a world you create for yourself to succeed
in.
Sure, maybe other people have had a similar idea to yours, but how you make it work, convince others of its potential and get people to fall
in love with its
possibilities is an extremely
creative process.
you believe
in a narrow view of a god based on ancient fairy tales and that if you adhere to the teachings of a supposed son of god you will go to disneyland
in the sky forever... which is damm ridiculous... I consider myself an atheist but I am aware of the
possibility of a
creative force which created the universe... but that god chatted with people 2000 years ago and brought out a book is childish and stoopid!
These visions arise out of the formed images and ideals of the person
in interaction with the
creative imagination that is capable of inventing novel
possibilities.
This theory has clear systematic connections to the doctrine of propositions as «lures for feeling» which are linked with
possibilities as «a line to
creative emergence
in the transcendent future.»
One of the
creative process philosophers, Charles Hartshorne, states
in the beginning of Man's Vision of God his conviction that «a magnificent intellectual content — far surpassing that of such systems as Thomism, Spinozism, German idealism, positivism (old or new) is implicit
in the religious faith most briefly expressed
in the three words, God is love».1 If this be true what is needed is not the discarding of metaphysics but the exploration of this new
possibility in the doctrine of God's being.
Snyder puts it this way: «
Creative fidelity means to bear with their plateaus, regressions, imperfectness
in such a way that these are transformed into new
possibilities.
According to Whitehead, the primordial order waits helplessly for
creative events to embody
in themselves the eternal objects which are presented to them as
possibilities by this order.
In these circumstances the possibilities for creative novelty in the synthesis of feeling which constitutes the satisfaction of the concrescing actual entity are great indee
In these circumstances the
possibilities for
creative novelty
in the synthesis of feeling which constitutes the satisfaction of the concrescing actual entity are great indee
in the synthesis of feeling which constitutes the satisfaction of the concrescing actual entity are great indeed.
Stephen Crites gives a strikingly similar analysis of divine creation as something to be understood
in terms of
creative possibilities.
However, the church leaders» (lay and professional) understanding of the principles of group dynamics and therapy can be immensely useful
in helping groups realize their
creative possibilities.
Jesus» unique response
in every situation made possible new,
creative opportunities that the Logos received from Jesus» actual actiondecisions and fed back into Jesus» life -
possibilities.
An entity's value
in relation to the whole of becoming creation is ever present (
in God) and active, What God can do with one's becoming
in relation to the
possibilities for future becoming is continuously determined by the ongoing
creative advance of the world.
Cobb at one point tells us that God's ultimate
creative goal is to «introduce the
possibility of a
creative synthesis of the new with the old,» and Ogden tells us that «God's only aim or intention
in exercising his power is the fullest possible self - creation of all his creatures» (PTT 107, FF 89).
with the totality of the
possibilities God envisages for the world, Christ, its incarnation, is seen
in the actualization of any radically new and
creative possibilities derived from God.
We will know that we can not purge ourselves of the sin and guilt
in which we are involved by the moral ambiguities of politics without also disavowing responsibility for
creative possibilities of justice.6
This horizontal line moves from
possibilities of actualization, as they are available for the actualization which will produce real entities, through the «
creative nexus» (of which we shall speak
in a moment), to the concrete occasions with which we are confronted
in their presentational immediacy to us.
As we then said, such moments have their «importance»
in that they illuminate what has gone before, are
in themselves a kind of concentration of what is actually present, and provide new opportunities and
possibilities both for understanding (which is the «subjective» side) and for that emergence of novelty
in concrete experience (which guarantees «objectivity») which is the occasion for further
creative advance as the process continues on its way.
Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both
in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the
possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic,
creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged
in conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.
The enhancement of the divine life
in its consequent aspect has opened up new
possibilities of relationship with the creation and has also provided new material through which God may act upon
creative potentiality, thus bringing to pass that emergence of novelty which is so genuine an element
in our experience and (as our observation informs us) of the world at large.
As they achieve,
in various degrees, the
possibilities inherent
in their basic stylistic premises, their
creative contribution, to the development of humanity is not despised by God.
Against H. Richard's emphasis on human finitude and dependence, Reinhold's awareness of human freedom and the Christian's political responsibility seems better to acknowledge the
creative and liberating
possibilities of moral action and of God's work
in history.
Growth groups can help both women and men discover the
creative possibilities that lie
in the profound changes ahead.
If, as Whitehead claims and as process thought
in general would assert, the element of «decision» is found everywhere
in the
creative process, this should not be taken to mean that a quantum of energy, say, knowingly «decides» for this or that among the relevant
possibilities that are «offered» to it.
We can say that, as primordial, God is the continuum of all
possibilities, the treasure - house of potentiality to be applied to the creation; that, as consequent (or as affected by that creation), God is the recipient of all value of good achieved
in the
creative advance; and that, as superjective, God «pours back into the world» (as Whitehead once put it) that which has thus been received from it but is now harmonized within the divine life that is «the Harmony of harmonies.»
Altizer's probe of the
possibility of a Catholic death - of - God theology is a real venture
in creative ecumenical thinking.
Ours is a universe where purpose can operate if the entities that are created
in its evolution are themselves responsive and
creative toward each new
possibility of cosmic evolution.
The romantic stage is similar to the prehension of data from the past and the lure of the
possibilities of the future; the stage of precision parallels the stage of the
creative synthesis of these data and
possibilities; the stage of generalization resembles the final stage of the becoming of a momentary experience, the culmination of an actuality's drive toward fulfillment, or
in Whitehead's word, satisfaction.
Prehension is a present
creative act open on both ends, to the past on the one hand and to further
possibilities or novelty on the other.8 Causal activity
in nature shares
in this polarity.
God opens to the occasion the
possibility of
creative novelty
in its response to these forces.
As noted above, Whitehead's doctrines imply that a narrowing pessimistic attitude, a lack of faith
in the
possibility of
creative advance, is evil, particularly by its obvious tendency to become a self - fulfilling prophecy.
The balance issues
in his fundamental doctrine of
creative process or evolution, which modulates between the notion of mere
possibility (lacking directional influence or aim) and the notion of a rigorous directional determinism.
In this way the «no» to one's
possibilities and freedom, the hamstringing of
creative imagination, can receive divine sanction.
The
possibilities which are presented are blessedness which comes from self - fulfillment and the acceptance by God of that self - fulfillment — all of this, of course,
in relationship with others and not
in any presumed human isolation of self hood — or the disintegration or failure which comes from self - destruction or rejection by God because there is nothing to be received by God
in His consequent nature for the furthering of His purpose of good
in the course of the process of
creative advance.
Our proposal also entails a distinction between the Christ, that Word or
creative possibility specifically addressed to the human situation and actualizable by a man, and the Logos, which is the totality of
creative possibilities inherent
in the primordial or nontemporal nature of God, actualizable by the diverse creatures appropriate to them, including intelligent living beings on other worlds.
On the contrary, it means that those events and occasions have so much entered into and so much become part of Deity
in his consequent aspect — providing new
possibilities for relationship, new opportunities for
creative advance, new chances for the bringing into actuality of genuine and richer good --- that they are
in some deep and real sense integral to the divine life itself.
Possibilities are
creative influences
in society.
Accordingly, Hartshorne defines metaphysics as «the search for necessary and categorial truth» and describes metaphysical truths as those which no experience can contradict and which any experience must illustrate.4
In a helpful article on this subject, Hartshorne elaborates: «Metaphysics, in an old phrase, explores «being qua being,» or reality qua reality, meaning by this, the strictly universal features of existential possibility, those which can not be unexemplified»; and he gives as an example of such a necessary truth the affirmation that «experience as creative process occur
In a helpful article on this subject, Hartshorne elaborates: «Metaphysics,
in an old phrase, explores «being qua being,» or reality qua reality, meaning by this, the strictly universal features of existential possibility, those which can not be unexemplified»; and he gives as an example of such a necessary truth the affirmation that «experience as creative process occur
in an old phrase, explores «being qua being,» or reality qua reality, meaning by this, the strictly universal features of existential
possibility, those which can not be unexemplified»; and he gives as an example of such a necessary truth the affirmation that «experience as
creative process occurs.
Accordingly, there is some validity to pessimism as one contemplates the real capacity of the human race to do evil and the
possibility that mankind may precipitate incalculably tragic evil and suffering by its wrong decisions regarding destructive warfare and the population explosion.53 Given
creative becoming as an everlastingly continuous process, Hartshorne declares that there will always be some evil
in the world; but the amount of evil will always be at least partially determined by
creative choices.
The «common good» means that, relative to every particular individual
in a specific community or other particular individuals, the
creative process offers relevant and novel
possibilities for that individual's deepened and enriched fulfilment.
The only conceivable world that would be compatible with the notion of God is one
in which there is a
possibility of
creative advance, of adventure with its inevitable risk of discord.
In simpler language, we may state that primordial objects in the universe (grounded in an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of creative outcomes and novel possibilitie
In simpler language, we may state that primordial objects
in the universe (grounded in an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of creative outcomes and novel possibilitie
in the universe (grounded
in an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of creative outcomes and novel possibilitie
in an ineffable reality) are causally transformed into a limited set of cosmological, biological and cultural entities, which at the same time, allows for an endless number of
creative outcomes and novel
possibilities.
It is
in the making — a
creative process is afoot here, with a long evolutionary story behind us and unforeseeable
possibilities ahead.