Creative Challenge

RIC_6889-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Can we approach life itself as a creative challenge, through
     the medium of whatever it is that we do on a daily basis?

        David Ulrich, 
        The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity

Seeing

Arbor Award Ceremony 3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Seeing comes from within ourselves, 
not from the vague "out there" of the outer world. 

David Ulrich, 
The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity

Primary Medium

Ghost Ranch 16 (2013, 7.30), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     We are the primary medium of the creative act – 
     not film or clay, paints or words. Learning to see, 
     learning to be, and learning to come into
     accord with the deeper sources within and 
     without – these are, undoubtedly the greatest 
     challenges given us, the most potent test of our 
     creative aspirations and capabilities. 

        David Ulrich, The Widening Stream

Creativity

Ghost Ranch 1 (2013, 7.30), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     
     One of the many paradoxes of creativity is that 
     we cannot know it fully, yet we can deeply experience it 
     within ourselves. 

        David Ulrich, The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity

Learning to See

Light 1 (2013, 5.29), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Learning to see means at first bearing witness to what we are 
and where we are, right now, at this very moment.

Laura Dunn and David Ulrich