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• Soul Making


  An alternative venue for knowing ourselves and looking into the depths and real meaning of everyday life. It is a form of crafting stories or transforming brief moments into images or symbols. It is the connecting with people, understanding culture, and embodying tolerance and peace. It is to develop the artist in us, awakening the art in us. It is an exploration and application of the imagination in an active way. We utilize imagination or an inspiration to connect with the soul.
• Imagination


  An important tool in developing an artwork
• Crafting Images


  Imaging and representing in any form, which may be through painting, sculpting, drawing, storytelling, poetry, dancing, composing or taking notes. It is just like weaving, quilting, or doing crochet; it is not creating out of nothing. It is rooted in our personal experiences, our personal encounters and events that triggered our reflection, recall and judgement.
• Crafting Stories


  The moment we write, engrave, and inscribe, our own thoughts, ideas, commentaries, criticism, and positive and negative emotions. Can be presented in any form – image, words, objects, and musical compositions.
• Crafting Instruments


  A bridge toward the unknown because the instrument produces sounds that transcend our feelings, emotions and sensation in another realm. The soul is accompanied by a vessel so that the soul will not vanish. Transforming any found or used object can into a musical instrument allows one to discover harmony and balance to produce a sound that is entertaining, enhancing, and magical.
• Crafting Movements


  Our life is full of movements; it is filled with various beats. Life is full of flowing images accompanied by flowing narratives. Everything we do in life is a performance; we perform life. At times we need to pause to capture the movements of our energy and the world.
• Crafting Technique


  Anything can be crafted by using different evocative descriptions of experiences and explorations, like photograph studies, puppets and masks, constructions and notepad studies.
• American author Michael J. Gelb published his bestseller "How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci"


  1998
• Curiosità


  Relentless curiosity and a willingness to learn new things. Asking more questions about yourself, your work, and your assumptions — isn't just a personal growth tool. It's also a productivity technique. Searching for new ideas and investigating how a particular habit or productivity method works, you gain knowledge. In other words, you learn what kind of working routines produce the best results and why.
• Dimostrazione


  Being ready to test knowledge through experience and accepting failure. The idea is straightforward: test out your knowledge in the real world, accept that you will fail sometimes, and learn from these mistakes. If you want to find your most productive habits, don't just learn about them. Test them out.
• Sensazione


  The consistent refinement of the senses. To connect this idea with modern productivity techniques, use your senses to be mindful of your habits at work. Create a moment-to-moment awareness of what you are doing by looking at how you act and listening — really listening — to feedback. The more you use your senses, the more experience you acquire. And this mindfulness when it comes to your working routines will help you approach a project with more poise.
• Arte/Scienza


  Balancing science and art. Combine your function with fun, and you'll advance toward mastery. When you're trying to bolster your productivity, don't just use the left side of your brain. Always balance out serious work habits with playful rituals, and you'll become more motivated, and ultimately, more productive.
• Corporalita


  The cultivation of fitness and grace. Stay on top of your physical game with the right foods and activities. Likewise, boost your mental strength by practicing mindfulness, allowing for enough relaxation. A sharp mind and a healthy body are prerequisites for productivity.
• Connessione


  Understanding the interconnection of things — "systems thinking". One productive habit doesn't change our lives. A system of productive activities, on the other hand, will make the difference.
• Appropriation


  Borrowing images that are recognizable from different sources and using these borrowed images to make a new art form. It is a means of experimentation by changing the context around the borrowed images and objects. It does not prohibit the viewers to bring the original message and intention of the original artwork, rather, they establish them in the new context.
• Appropriation examples


  • Rene Magritte "The Son of Selfie"
  • Jose Magritte, Painted "The Son of Man"
• Culture


  A specific type or form of intellectual development. It also means the customs, practices, perspectives, and even creations shared by a group of people.
• Cultural Appropriation


  Appropriation that occurs across the boundaries of cultures. This means that a person with a certain culture takes objects created by a person or a group of persons of another culture and uses these objects as his or her own.
• Object Appropriation


  Appropriation of concrete and noticeable works of art. This happens when a tangible work previously owned by people from one culture was taken and adopted by a person or a group of persons from another culture.
• Content Appropriation


  Adoption of works of art that are intangible.
• Style Appropriation


  Do not replicate the works created by a person or a group of persons from another culture. However, they use the elements from those works from another culture in creating their own works.
• Motif Appropriation


  Artists are inspired by the motifs from a different culture, but they do not produce artworks using exactly the same style.
• Subject Appropriation


  Occurs when a subject matter from another culture is appropriated.
• Textile Art


  The process of creating something using fibers gained from sources like plants, animals, or synthetic materials. It is an extremely old art form. People developed textiles to keep warm, to protect surfaces and to insulate dwellings.
• Textiles


  • Often made through traditional methods like sewing, weaving, and knitting. These methods all have a basic principle in common --they use thread or yarn to make or connect pieces of fabric.
• Sewing


  A single needle and thread stitches pieces of cloth together and also add surface ornament.
• Embroidery


  Covering the surface of a textile with decorative pictures and colorful patterns, is a form of sewing.
• Weaving


  Involves interlacing two sets of threads. Warp (which runs vertically) and Weft (which runs horizontally). Weaving requires using a piece of equipment called a loom.
• Loom


  A manually operated device that holds the warp threads steady while filling weft threads are woven through them.
• Knitting


  One of the oldest and simplest means of making a fabric. Involves connecting the yarn by a series of loops. It's normally done by hand.
• Crochet


  A process of creating textiles by using a crochet hook to interlock loops of yarn, thread, or strands of other materials. The name is derived from the French term crochet, meaning 'small hook'. Hooks can be made from a variety of materials, such as metal, wood, bamboo, or plastic.
• T'boli Women


  There are weavers and there are "dream weavers" - a world and realms apart.
• T'nalak


  A ritual textile, its creation is connected to the T'boli spirituality and cosmology. A dream weaver is said to be anointed by the weaving deity Fu Dalo that patterns and designs are revealed by the spirit in dreams. This traditional cloth is handwoven and made of abaca fibers, which traditionally has three primary colors - red, black, and the original color of the abaca leaves.
• Mandaya of Davao Oriental

  Has the Dagmay-an abaca -handwoven cloth with intricate designs revolving around man and crocodile, which is one of the most popular materials in the culture. Its mud-dyeing technique is believed to be the only one existing in the Philippines.
• Pisyabit


  The traditional cloth tapestry worn as the covering by the Tausugs of Sulu. It is made of cotton or silk or with gold-threads characterized with intricate geometric patterns of colors segmented. It is a multi-purpose headwear that may be worn on shoulder, tied around the hilt of the kris (sword) or wrapped around the head used by the Tausug men.
• Seputangan


  Worn by the women around the waist or as a head cloth and is patterned after the colors of the rainbow, worn by the Yakan of Basilan and Sulu.
• Soul and Space


  Early Filipinos construct folk architectures, which are simple structures, usually intended to provide only basic shelter or the surrounding terrain without concern for following any architectural style and built of local materials and available tools by people who would inhabit them.
• Bahay Kubo (Kamalig or Nipa Hut)


  A type of stilt house indigenous to most of the lowland cultures of the Philippines. It is often serves as an icon of broader Filipino culture, more specifically Filipino rural culture. This village dwelling is simple and made out of organic materials. A type of stilt house made of bamboo, coconut leaves and cogon grass. It has one room for family living and all household activities.
• Ifugao House (Bale)


  The houses are usually similar in architectural designs, but they differ in decorative details depending on the tribes. The houses are harmoniously located with the contour of the rice terraces. The Ifugao houses has three functional levels : the ground floor, second level for the living quarters and third quarter which is used as granary. Made of wood covered with plywood sticks and dried coconut leaves.
• Batanes House


  A unique vernacular architecture developed in the province of Batanes. Its compact structure is divided into four main areas: the main house, cooking house, toilet and bath house. The houses of IVATAN are constructed and repaired through a cooperative system called kayvayvanaan or kamayiduan.