{"id":14642,"date":"2013-12-04T08:05:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T07:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=14642"},"modified":"2013-12-09T16:21:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T15:21:40","slug":"creative-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/creative-inheritance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rainbow Way – Creative Inheritance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, my\u00a0 post is part of Week Three of the month-long\u00a0Carnival of Creative Mothers<\/b>\u00a0to celebrate the launch of\u00a0 <\/i>The Rainbow Way:\u00a0<\/a>Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood<\/a><\/b><\/span> by\u00a0Lucy H. Pearce<\/a><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>
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\n<\/i>Today’s topic is\u00a0<\/span>Creative\u00a0<\/b>Inheritance<\/b> and I volunteered to write a post about this topic too…
\nDo read to the end of this post for a full list of carnival participants.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

You can also<\/em> Join the Carnival<\/a>\u00a0and be in with a chance to win a free e-copy of The Rainbow Way! Next week is the final week!<\/span><\/i><\/span> December 11th <\/b><\/i>the topic will be: The Creative Process.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

I do believe that creativity is (partly) in the genes, but that it can be strenghtened and encouraged as a kid… my parents, for example, were both creative in their own way and so they gave me the example on how you can embed creativity into your life – and I, too, passed a creative sparkle into my son…<\/p>\n

Last week, I dived into the old photo boxes and viewed hundreds of photos (yep, that much! You’ll find out why there are that many when you read further…) I was looking for images that would show the creativity going on in our house when I was a child…<\/p>\n

My mom, Johanna Kruit<\/a>, is a poet and a writer of children’s books. Here’s how she\/her desk looked in the seventies…<\/p>\n

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From my mom, I inherited my passion for words and the trait to look at the world with different eyes. To imagine \u2018that other world\u2019 that may possible lay behind ours \u2013 a world where fairies fly, mermaids wash ashore and dragons exist. As a child, I found it fascinating that the stories my mom read to me came out of someone head (hers, another writer\u2019s) and that the fantasy of the writer could be passed on through written words \u2013 heck, I STILL find that fascinating!<\/p>\n

My dad, on the other hand, is more of an analytic and visual type. He is a great amateur photographer. When I was a teenager, we made quite some \u2018photography trips\u2019 on the peninsula where I grew up. I found this photo I took from him taking a photo of the view from the balcony of our holiday-home in Luxembourg in 1979.<\/p>\n

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He taught me not only to look, but to try to really \u2018see\u2019 (and analyse) what you are looking at: contrast, golden ratio and also how to choose subjects or take detailed photographs. He had no teaching experience whatsoever, but he would certainly have been a great teacher at an art school or something…<\/p>\n

This photo shows me with my photo camera. (1976?)<\/p>\n

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In our family, there was an interest in all kinds of art. While searching my photoboxes (an awful lot of photos my dad took when I was little are in there – hence the big number) I came across this cute photo from my brother. He must have been approximately 3 years old when this was taken (in the late sixties) and I just had to include this photo in my post… aahhh
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So in me, I combine the genes my parents passed on to me. The fantasy, imagination and love for words that I got from my mom and the analytic skills, curiousity for techniques and eagerness to pass on knowledge that I inherited from my dad automatically lead me to become a teacher in art.<\/p>\n

I almost couldn’t believe it when I found this picture… a photo from my art class! I even remember that teacher (Mr. Elzinga?) And do you see the girl with the red, henna-dyed, hair and coloured sweater (second from right?) That’s me around 1985!<\/p>\n

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The art I made while studying at the art school (1984-1989) often showed a combination of images and words and looking back on it, I was already art journaling without knowing that this word existed. Here’s a book that I made for the graduation exhibition (the theme for my graduation exhibition was “Lord of the Rings”.)
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After art school, I went on studying on a more theoretical level (science of children- and adult education) and was not thinking about (creating) art in those years. However, I lived together with a graphical designer and when we had a son, we passed on the creative gen!<\/p>\n

We did stimulate him – for example – to paint…<\/p>\n

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Years passed since then… I broke up with the father of my son and found another love… my son grew up being fond of mathematics and computers – which is alright of course.<\/p>\n

But as the above stated: creativity somehow is in the blood and I myself picked up being creative when I started scrapbooking around 2002. A few years later I found out about ‘art journaling’ which made me re-discovered the combination of words and images in a way that truly combines all the \u2018mom and dad\u2019 sides I have in me… and it feels like I\u2019ve finally come home.<\/p>\n

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Oh… and my son?
\nHe studies artificial intelligence at the University and besides that: he works as a free lance photographer for a musical website; visiting concerts, photographing musicians and in his free time playing the piano.<\/p>\n

How’s that for creative inheritance?!!
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