Work in Progress – Creative Processing

Essay fragment on Creativity and brain processing

Passing by, enjoying the process.

Creative processing is something of special interest. The previous sketches, the random ideas, notes, and research before the final synthesis are fascinating for a neuroscience researcher. Such mental processing details can be seen step by step in the artistic creation, and it´s a similar processing with invention.

The final result might be great, or not, but the steps in arriving there are of max importance.

So that an artistic activity can become social, as is the case with mural art, it is first filtered by the personal perspective and implicitly has therapeutic value. When the communication intent the message, it´s processed beyond personal space, and it´s directed to the social realm, it becomes social art.

Since we use creativity to stimulate memory, preserve it, and develop and expand language, to be or not creative is not an optional choice. Our existence moves around creative processing, and when we finally find a way of artistic expression, it´s when the language is reaching top developmental levels, and communicates.

Closing the doors on creativity means implicitly closing communication and disturbing development. In other words, the more arts and crafts a society has integrated, as healthy the individuals are.

An intent of communication, no matter the way, is preferable to an aggressive reaction.