SOULMAKING

• soul-making - a process where the basic seed of divine intelligence in all humans goes through necessary experiences, especially suffering, that transform the intelligence into a unique soul.
• Soul making cannot be defined
• Soulmaking can be innate gift or a learned skill, or a

  combination of both.
• Soulmaking - a form of creating stories or transforming short moments into an image or symbols.
• CONTEXT AND SYMBOLS - Considered to interpret and analyze either verbal or written works
• STYLE - The distinctive handling of elements and media associated with the work.
• FORM - The totality of the artwork (textures, colors, and shapes)
• CONTENT - Includes form, subject matter, and underlying meanings or themes.
• ARTWORK - What the audience sees (the finished product)
• CRAFTING STORIES - Creating stories when an individual writes down his or her own personal feedback, life values, deep feelings, ideas, ideals, and even high and low emotions
• CRAFTING INSTRUMENTS - Treated as “A bridge to the unknown” because the instrument creates sounds that exceed our thoughts, emotions, and sensations
• CRAFTING MOVEMENTS - For artists who are more inclined to crafting movement, the pattern that life serves a person provides a source of inspiration
• CRAFTING TECHNIQUES - Artist’s reflection of his life and experiences in any piece of art
• CRAFTING STORIES -The moment we write, engrave, and inscribe our own thoughts, ideas, commentaries, criticisms, and positive and negative emotions, we are crafting stories
• CRAFTING IMAGES - Imaging or representing in any form, which may be through painting, sculpting, drawing, story-telling, poetry, dancing, composing, or taking notes
• The soul is accompanied by a vessel so that the soul will not vanish
• STYLE ➢ Refers to the distinctive handling of elements and media.
• FORM ➢ Is what the audience sees
• CONTENT ➢ Is the subject matter and underlying meanings or themes
• Meta - Means above
• Phero - means to carry
• SEEKING ➢ Point of self-recognition and that each of us is a seeker
• SETTLING ➢ Communication with the soul, with other human and non-human beings (the future of humans and non-humans) and with the world.
• SURRENDER ➢ Takes us up and throws us down; calls for the wounds we bear to be accepted; forces us to spend time living in the darkness.
• SOULMAKING ➢ Where we start growing up with some wisdom looking for the welfare of others.
• SOARING ➢ Conquering our worldly experiences of the material realities to travel, which does not happen if we only want to fly.
• IMPROVISATION - Is doing something without prior preparation in an original way
• IMPROVISATION - The unexpectedness of the changes brought about improvisation makes the artwork to have a distinctive quality that creates its individuality and identity
• PERFORMING ARTS ➢ “On the spot” or “Off the cuff” moment
• MUSIC ➢ Occurs during a solo performance
• THEATRE ➢ Plays without pre-written dialogue or ad-lib when actors forget their line
• APPROPRIATION - Ownership generally pertains to the general right of a person or an individual to control an object purchased or in his possession.
• Copyright – the person who created the work
• Copyright – exclusive

  rights to reproduce,

  todisplay publicly, to make

  and distribute copies, and to

  prepare derivative

  worksbased on the original

  artwork, as well as to

  authorize those mentioned

  above.∙
• Appropriation is different from copying or forgery.
• PLAGIARISM - The process or practice of using another person’s ideas or work and pretending that it is your own
• FORGERY - Crime of false making or copying of something