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Hello <<First Name>>,
Welcome to the August 2015 edition of Arts Awareness E-Newsletter delivered to your desktop each month. If you know someone who may be interested in receiving this newsletter, please let them know how to sign up through www.artsawareness.com.
 CHANGING PATTERNS
Learn to use the artistic process:
To reexamine observations and opinions.
To reflect the senses and emotions of your world.
To see possibility in a continually changing environment.
Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Reframing Perceptions
 At first glance the three 28-foot-high metal-riveted wooden doors appear to struggle to stand in place, leaning against each other for support. As you approach, your understanding of the precariously perched structure changes over to an image of balance and strength. You realize you are standing in front of a work of art. And then once again your awareness shifts as you’re invited to step inside and discover that this three-story tall structure is a giant walk-in kaleidoscope. The sculpture—The Doors by Donald Lipski—is located in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona.
When you stand inside, the mirrored walls give you a sense of multiple reflections of yourself. The opening overhead creates the optical illusion of a geodesic dome. You’re reminded that the meaning of any situation or of any set of circumstances is found in the frame within which you view it. Actively engaging in the artistic process gives you the opportunity to experience a similar sense of rethinking what you see. You open from the inside out and create space for growth.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more
unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
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Reflective Practice
The opportunity to stand inside a kaleidoscope and experience the changing patterns is, in many ways, a reflection of living in the world today. In the same way, reflective practice helps an artist discover potential and appreciate their own creativity. Mirrored walls—with multiple reflections—capture the moment and allow one to assess various viewpoints. It truly influences the future. When standing in a kaleidoscope, you become an external observer of sorts with the ability to consider multifaceted perspectives. Real reflective practice takes you beyond learning; you learn how to learn. When you take action to align with the new understandings that arise in the reflective process, you move on at higher and higher levels of awareness. Meaningful reflection is woven throughout the artistic experience. It strengthens the knowledge one gains and creates the possibility of multiple pathways from every experience.
The artistic process compels an artist or a student of the arts—
- To engage in reflective practice, internalize, and take charge of learning.
- To grow, change, and develop increasing insight through their experiences.
- To create new opportunities from multifaceted perspectives.
Reflective practice allows you to take ownership of learning. When artists engage in reflective practice, they create works of art that allow them to share their thoughts. The practice gives artists an opportunity to collaborate with the world in ways they would never imagine otherwise. In the artistic process, ideas start flowing and artists are free to explore outside their everyday world. Works of art spread ideas and allow more and more people to experience the ideas, connect with them, and flourish from the knowledge. Public art like The Doors in Scottsdale helps people connect through the experience. It sparks communication and encourages new perspectives.
 Watch this gorgeous two-minute video—The power of x. Dancers, along with imaginative camera work, create the changing patterns in a stunning human kaleidoscope. The video was created for a gathering of organizers from around the world to celebrate the power of TEDx to multiply great ideas.
Imagine ways you can use the kaleidoscope of changing patterns in your world to create new possibilities.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
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More Changing Patterns
Changing patterns occur at an increasingly rapid pace in today’s world. The structure, content, and process of how we live and work change constantly. Everyone is faced with changes in nearly all aspects of daily life—technological developments, time pressures, increasing global perspectives, and more complex ideas. Artists reflect on the changing patterns and create new ideas, often out of old materials. They play with space and reframe perceptions.
Explore more artist-inspired kaleidoscope concepts:
Artists Construct Giant Kaleidoscope Inside Japanese Shipping Container
Optical Illusion Home Shows It's Easy to Live Inside a Kaleidoscope
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About the Arts Awareness Newsletter:
This newsletter is meant to spark ideas and develop a deeper understanding of artistic processes and their use in leadership, everyday life, and work. Content, which comes from personal experiences and a variety of sources, is based on the Arts Awareness concepts developed by Patricia Hoy. Questions? Comments? Contact Patricia at patricia@artsawareness.com or 901-229-1955, N. 93rd Way, Scottsdale, AZ.
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