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Soul making is a process of crafting stories, images, and art to understand oneself and one's place in the world on a deeper level. It involves using creative expression and human experiences to gain self-knowledge and help others. The document outlines several categories and phases of soul making such as crafting images, stories, instruments, movements, and techniques.

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Soul Making

Soul making is a process of crafting stories, images, and art to understand oneself and one's place in the world on a deeper level. It involves using creative expression and human experiences to gain self-knowledge and help others. The document outlines several categories and phases of soul making such as crafting images, stories, instruments, movements, and techniques.

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SOUL MAKING

Soul Making is a form of crafting stories, transforming brief moments


into images serving as symbols that connects with people,
understanding culture and embodying tolerance, peace, and
imagination.

The word 'making' in 'soul-making' comes from the Greek word poieo
which means 'to be the author or maker of something’.

In philosophy, poiesisis is "the activity in which a person brings


something into being that did not exist before."

The reason for that term, for example rather than soulbuilder or soul-
grower, is that the emphasis is on creative, intelligent authorship. The
making is not done by impersonal processes, but by intelligent forces.

SOUL MAKING IN ART

In order for people to make sense of the work, it would require


understanding the visual elements where art was grounded on, especially
the principles of design.
It is important to note that the audience of the artwork must have a
certain level of awareness of its style, form and content

According to Dr. Norman Narciso, "Soulmaking is an alternate place to


know oneself and to look at the depths and meaning of what we do in
our daily lives.” It is a step towards a deeper comprehension of how the
world is perceived and how his/her personality is seen.

In soul making, "Who are you?" is the topic, that throughout the
process, serves as a guidepost. Knowing oneself begins with
consciousness.

In order to start the process, it is necessary to realize and embrace one's


truth, history and understanding of existence.

It is not so much the production that is mostly taken into account,


rather the method of perceiving anything.

DEPTH AND ESSENCE

Soul making is more than the soul's religious perspective. Soul refers
to a person’s individuality which resonates with his behavior. Since
art is a human expression that is highly valued and symbolic, a person
typically uses different art forms to fulfill the need to communicate and
express himself. The human desire to actualize his very being is strongly
assisted by soul making.

Art gives a person a sense of purpose about what he is doing. As any


artwork is an expression of one's perceptions, feelings, emotions, and
realities, the key to personal cultural growth is the process of creating
such expression.

Soul making uses every human experience to build the influence that
can make the artist, himself, and others improve.

Life includes a lot of adventure, understanding the challenges


that come with each adventure, and understanding how each person
has a unique way of perceiving things as life happens to them. Soul
making is a method that can be gone through by anyone. As all are
creative in their own right, it is not limited to the "obviously artistic".
It is losing oneself in the art of viewing the world from a different
perspective and detaching oneself from himself.
CATEGORIES OF SOUL MAKING

1. Crafting Images includes the production, by various forms and


methods, of visual representations of images. Any art form such as
drawing, sketching, and sculpting can be used in this process.
Dancing, poetry (or black-out poetry), musical instrument playing,
and even filmmaking may also do.

One is already creating stories when he writes down his own feedback,
life values, deep feelings, ideas, ideals, including high and low emotions.
Similarly, he may be portrayed by different means when one craft story
is presented. Stories can be relayed via vivid photos, calming music, and
impactful sentences.

2. Crafting Stories. When one is creating stories, writes down his


personal feedback, life values, deep feelings, ideas, ideals, and even
high and low emotions, he is already crafting stories. He may be
portrayed by different means when one craft story is presented. Stories
can be relayed via vivid photos, calming music, and impactful
sentences.
3. Crafting Instruments is "a bridge to the unknown because
the instrument creates sounds that exceed our thoughts, emotions,
and sensations. The soul is accompanied by a vessel so that the soul
will not disappear." Instruments help people explore the magic behind
music and its unique impact on a person. Such musical
instruments can establish the soul's harmonious sustenance and
the mind's balance.

4. Crafting Movements. According to Dr. Narciso, “Life is


movement.” One’s life is full of different rhythms. Our life is full
of movements, of different rhythms, lof flowing images
accompanied by narratives, and this melodic flow symbolizes how the
universe gives every human being the ability to experience the highs
and lows." For artists who are more inclined to crafting movement,
the pattern that life serves a person provides a source of inspiration.

5. Crafting Techniques in soul making is the artist's reflection


of his life and experiences in any piece of art. The approach,
preferably, should be methodological. When he executes his
creative expression, is unbounded though.
5 PHASES OF SOUL MAKING

1. Seeking or finding. We recognize that each of us who are


interested in our own growth and the ways of our world is a 'seeker.' We
are looking for a discipline or method that can help us live in and make
sense of the world and heal the wounds of 'self.'

Searching is a vital stage in our growth as soul builders. It gives us the


tools to live our lives, and if we systematically look, we find that in some
integral sense, these tools and practices can be fitted together, allowing
us to settle down, moving us on to a practice or cluster of practices that
satisfy our creativity and passion, and then spend time perfecting.

2. Settling. Soul making is about communicating, as profoundly as


possible, with the soul, with other human and non-human beings (and
this means the future of humans and non-humans) and with the world.
If we are perpetually wondering, we cannot do this. We must find
ourselves settled at some point in our lives.

3. Surrender. If it is permitted to surrender, with all its pain and


vulnerability, something magical will happen. However, the capacity to
surrender, of course, is restricted by the amount of pain and uncertainty
one can bear. True surrender takes us up and throws us down; calls for
the wounds we bear to be accepted; forces us to spend time living in the
darkness.

4. Soul making. At some point in the variations between the Settling


and Surrender dual polarities, we begin to perceive our practice and life
in the universe as Soul Making. We are beginning to become experts, an
injured healers, to grow up enough to feed our family, and to accept that
there is no way to ever get it right. This is the individual transitions from
a stage of improving reflective practice to becoming a practitioner of soul
making. But we need to keep looking. Throughout life, we all settle and
resettle, submission, over and over again. It will constantly call upon our
capacity to care and nurture others and the world.

5. Soaring. When we begin the journey, what we most aspire


is to soar, conquer our worldly experience's material realities-to
travel. Wanting to fly, nor can the psychological version of a spaceship
or airplane created by ourselves, soaring in the sky will not be enough.
We have to enable ourselves to pass through the stages of soul making.
In this painting, the artist is showing what depression looks like.
Make an x-ray of yourself.
Discover what else
you need to improve or change
to make your life worth living.
Then express this in your work of art,
so as to influence others,
and enlighten those who are in doubt,
those who are find themselves
soaring high in the sky, yet still Lost.
SOURCES:

Module 4 Lesson 1 - Art Appreciation Soul Making -


StuDocuwww.studocu.com › ... › Art Appreciation

ART APPRECIATION (Chapter 7) Flashcards | Quizletquizlet.com › artappreciation-chapter-


7-flash-cards

ART-APPRECIATION-WEEK-13.pptx - SOULMAKING
...www.coursehero.com › file

Soul Making Art Exampleswriteness-training.blogspot.com › 2019/10 › soulmaki...

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