People say it all the time. But how many of us actually know what it means? Not too many I don't think. I myself still don't quite fully understand what it means, but I challenge myself every single day to find out who I am, creatively.
An unknown author wrote: "Creativity. The state or quality of being creative. The ability to transcend traditional ideas and to create meaningful new ideas."
I think that this is the most perfect way to describe creativity. Creativity is thinking of and creating new ideas to better original, "seen before" ideas. It really has very little to do with colouring in pencils and pretty glitter glue like we are taught in primary school.
I like think that the only way to achieve greatness in something, is to practise. Just like the only way to better yourself, and your skills, is to A) challenge yourself, and B) practise.
Since this blog is all about food creativity which I absolutely love, and I'm guessing so do all of you, I think that the perfect way to challenge yourself creatively is by taking the '31 day food creativity challenge'. This is a great little challenge that I learned about through Red Hong Yi.
Hong Yi is an artist-architect who is all about creative design. A lot of people know Hong as the artist who loves to paint, but not with her paintbrush. She is a true inspiration to creativity and artists, and highly recognised by the media, such as The Daily Press and CNN.
The 31 day challenge, in which she displays pieces of art created with food on the same white plate done everyday in March 2013. Displays her true bravery when it comes to creative challenges. This series has been covered by media internationally.
One of Hongs creations in her 31 day challenge.
On one of the days of the 31 day challenge, Hong used red onion to create the image on an owl.
The image of a lady in a dress made out of red cabbage.
To find out more about Red Hong Yi's 31 days of food creativity challenge, check out her webpage.
As far as us and challenging our creativity goes, maybe we can't go to this degree to challenge our creativity but we certainly can use Red Hong Yi's work as a wonderful example. Maybe you don't even have to use food, maybe you can put another one of your areas of interest to challenge, like a 31 day gardening creativity challenge, or a knitting creativity challenge, or hell, maybe even a fashion challenge, whatever it is, do it. Get your creative juices flowing. What's the harm?
I think we all feel that creativity is an earned title, but that is complete and utter unadulterated bollox.
We all have creativity within us. It's just a matter of how we express it. In our art, our work, our make-up, the way we dress and even the way we talk.
Challenge yourself, and never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, doubt your creativity.
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