Soul-making, Sound Soul, and

Structure

Lesson 10
Learning Outcomes:

 Discuss the concept of soul-making.

 Extend to immediate community the students’ artwork as a form of service

learning (such as using recyclable materials).

 Enhance students’ sensitivity and awareness towards their environment

Soul-making

▪ The word ‘making’ in soul-making comes out of the Greek work poieo
which means ‘to be author or maker of something’.
▪ An alternative venue for knowing ourselves and looking into the depths
and real meaning of what we are doing for our everyday life. -Narciso
2012
▪ It is to develop the artist in us awakening the art in us that has been
stagnant or undeveloped for numerous years.
▪ It is an exploration and application of the imagination in an active way.
How to perform soulmaking?

 Soulmaking can be performed by:

 Crafting images
 Crafting stories
 Crafting interest for performance
 Using recycled materials for art works
 Imaginative play
Crafting Images

 Craft the image inside a lightroom in many ways.

 Use creative technique in artmaking
 Start out with an image that has ‘good bones’.
 The image must be pleasingly composed and it needs to have
something that compel you to want to look at it.
Crafting Stories

1) Craft your premise

 Who is the protagonist?
 What is the situation?
 What is the protagonist's objective?
 Who is the opponent?
 What will be the disaster? Conflict
Crafting Stories

2. Roughly sketch scene ideas - armed with a good and solid premise, you may
begin sketching your ideas for the story.
- Write a list of everything you already know about your story.
- Provide a handful of scene in your mind.
- Take a moment to review your list.
Crafting Stories

3. Interview your characters

 To be able to intrigue a reader, the most important thing is to have great
characters. Characters should live, feel, express, and act like real people to be seen
as genuine. Therefore, it's important to get to know your characters as much as
possible to be able to portray them as genuine as possible.

4. Explore your settings

 Setting is the context in which a story or scene occurs and includes the time, place,
and social environment. It is important to establish a setting in your story, so your
readers can visualize and experience it.
 The time and place of the events, and the social environment surrounding them, form
the background.
Crafting Stories

5. Write your complete outline

 Outlines are a tremendously valuable resource when writing a story.
 The clear plan an outline provides will make your creative writing more fluid,
efficient, and even spontaneous.
 As you gather story ideas, follow your inspiration, but resist the urge to start writing
the first draft of your short story without a plan.

6. Condense your outline

 Allows you to weed out extraneous thoughts and summarize the entire outline
into a scannable list for easier reference.
Crafting Stories

7. Put your outline into action

 You are feeing prepared and eager to get going on your first draft.
 Each time you sit down to work on your manuscript, begin by reviewing your
outline.
 This offers you invaluable structure and guidance as you write your first draft, but
never be afraid to explore new ideas as they occur.
 Remember, your outline is a map showing you the route to your destination, but
that doesn’t mean it is the only route.
How to recycle materials for art works?

 Recycled art is creative work that's made from discarded materials

that once had another purpose. This includes anything from old
plastic toys and vehicle tires to scraps of cloth and building supplies.
Artists who make recycled art take those materials and make them
into something new. You might sometimes see it called ''junk art,''
but that term is a bit limiting. Something that is being recycled isn't
necessarily junk.
 At its heart, recycled art is about repurposing and reusing materials.
There's no limit to what kinds of materials can be used. Recycled art
can be large or small. It can be two dimensional or three
dimensional.
Materials

Here are some ways you can use these recycled art materials to create and learn.
• Cereal Boxes. Rocket Craft
• Corks. Cork Painted Rainbows
• Milk Cartons and Plastic Bottles. Discovery Bottles
• Catalogs, Magazines, and Newspaper. Newspaper Pirate Hat
• Toilet Paper and Paper Towel Rolls
• Jars, Lids, and Cans
• Egg Cartons
The Seven Leonardo da Vinci Principle

 Leonardo da Vinci was the ultimate Renaissance man: an accomplished

scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor,
architect, musician, and writer. As a leader, an entrepreneur, a boss, we can
learn a lot from the Principles of Leonardo Da Vinci:
1. Curiosita – You need an insatiable curiosity for life.
Great minds have one characteristic in common: they continuously ask
questions throughout their lives.
The Seven Leonardo da Vinci Principle

2. Dimostrazione– A commitment to test knowledge through experience.

Wisdom comes from experience and the principle of Dimostrazione helps you
get the most out of your experience
3. Sensazione– The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the
means to clarify experience.
According to Da Vinci, we can best practice Dimostrazione through our senses,
particularly sight.
4. Sfumato- A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
An essential characteristic of Da Vinci’s genius is his ability to handle a sense of
mystery.
The Seven Leonardo da Vinci Principle

5. Arte/Scienza– The development of the balance between science and art, logic and
imagination (“whole-brain thinking”).
The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination”. This
is thinking with the “whole brain”.
6. Corporalita- The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
Corporalità is “the cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness, and poise”. Leonardo had
amazing physical ability that complemented his genius in science and arts.
7. Connessione – A recognition and appreciation for the connectedness of all things and
phenomena; “systems thinking.”
In other words, is systems thinking. One main source of Leonardo’s creativity is his ability to
form new patterns through connections and combinations of different elements.
Appropriation Art

 To appropriate is to borrow.
 Therefore, is the practice of creating or even borrowing new work by taking a
pre-existing image from another source such as from art history books,
advertisements, media, and then transforming or combining it with new ones.
 Other sources of appropriated images are works of art in the past and recent
ones, historical documents, films, and television, products in the market.
 Appropriation in art and art history refers to the practice of artists using pre-
existing objects or images in their art with little transformation of the original.
What's the Intent of Appropriation Art?

 To "appropriate" is to take possession of something. Appropriation artists

deliberately copy images to take possession of them in their art. They are not
stealing or plagiarizing, nor are they passing off these images as their very own.
This artistic approach does stir up controversy because some people view
appropriation as unoriginal or theft. This is why it's important to understand why
artists appropriate the artwork of others.
 Appropriation artists want the viewer to recognize the images they copy. They
hope that the viewer will bring all of his original associations with the image to the
artist's new context, be it a painting, a sculpture, a collage, a combine, or an
entire installation.
An Iconic Example of Appropriation

 Let's consider Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Can" series (1961). It is probably
one of the best-known examples of appropriation art.
 The images of Campbell soup cans are clearly appropriated. He copied the
original labels exactly but filled up the entire picture plane with their iconic
appearance. Unlike other garden-variety still-lifes, these works look like portraits of
a soup can.
 The brand is the image's identity. Warhol isolated the image of these products to
stimulate product recognition (as is done in advertising) and stir up associations
with the idea of Campbell's soup. He wanted you to think of that "Mmm Mmm
Good" feeling.
Whose Photograph Is It?

 Sherrie Levine's "After Walker Evans" (1981)

is a photograph of a famous Depression-
era photograph. The original was taken
by Walker Evans in 1936 and titled
"Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife." In her
piece, Levine photographed a
reproduction of Evans' work. She did not
use the original negative or print to
create her silver gelatin print.
Is the use of appropriation significant?

 Yes, the use of appropriation in art has played a significant role in

the history of the art such as those in the literary, visual, musical, and
performing arts.
 In the visual art, for instance, to appropriate means to properly
adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects of human-made, visual,
cultural.
 In most cases the original thing remains accessible as the original,
without changes.
Cultural Appropriation: What is it and Why is it Wrong?

 The idea of cultural appropriation has entered in the mainstream of

contemporary society, casting doubt on legitimacy of everything.
 The reason is:
 It can provoke anything from less serious to serious offense- a violation of the copyright
law.
 It can also provoke the originator, the author of the work that was appropriated to sue
in court the person who appropriated the work. But it remains hard to defend and
prosecute.
What is it then?

 Cultural appropriation, in terms of art, is when someone adopts, copy, transfer,

borrow, and transform something like an object, image, motif, etc., from a culture
that is not his or her own.
 The problem arises when somebody takes something from another less dominant
culture (especially with the knowledge of the original owner) in a way that
culture find undesirable and offensive.
 It is important to consider copyright, moral rights and consumer protection issues,
including misleading and deceptive conduct, when creating an artwork. This is
especially important if your art practice involves appropriating elements of your
work from existing artistic works.