a reply to sebbie can shoot better pictures.
A reply to ’sebbie can shoot better pictures’ in a comment by terenceg about my tmn bunga write up
okay, maybe i’m just using it as an excuse to write this. but i’ve often wondered about this issue so i guess now i have the chance to get it down in writing.
i’ve always had a certain affinity for art and design, and also a natural drive to understand how things work. which actually lead me to have studied and worked in the field that i’m working in. i don’t exactly claim that i am an arty person but hey i appreciate good design. but there’s this one thing that i really believe in is that, as we grow older a little bit of curiousity and creativity dies in us. i wonder why.
i remember once, i was in primary school i think. my class teacher spoke to my mom about my colouring habits during class. Apparently, I always coloured in peoples skin tone in purple. and my teacher remarked that THATS WRONG. WHERE HAVE YOU EVER SEEN PURPLE PEOPLE? and from that day onwards, i started colouring people’s skintones in yellow (i think it was to represent chinese, dark brown - indian , and liight brown - malays) <— see.. subconciously we instill racial profiling in children at such and early age.. *sniggers* joking ok..
i really resent this sort of situations happening. i guess what I really mean is, what’s wrong with children doing things a little different. so what if i coloured people purple? there’s certainly nothing wrong with them.
try looking at a young childs drawing of a person (more often then not it will be a drawing of their mother), you’ll probably notice that the proportion is ALL WRONG. the head appears to be bigger then the body. And we adults will in turn tell the bog/girl that his drawing is not proportionate and is WRONG. but have we ever thought that perhaps, they have their own reason of drawing in such a manner? maybe the kid drew his/her mom’s face bigger because its the part which he recognises the most and wants to describe it on paper the best he can? hence the whole bigger face?
i remember once when i was sitting down with my first nephew teaching how to paint with water colour.. and he drew a green coloured bird. my reaction was
“wahh i never seen a green coloured bird before. but today i see one already, because its your drawing” * yes i know there are such things as green parrots and what not.. just that we normally draw birds as a V in black right??
as we get older, we are forced to conform to formality, and try to obtain perfection. we confine ourselves within a bounding box which limits our creativity, all in the search of painting a perfect picture. but i say, to hell with that.. bring out the imperfections, the quirkiness, the purple coloured people. why constraint our thoughts? why succumb to ego and later on find out that you’re on the losing side of things…
okay, maybe this didn’t make sense at all, i’m just ranting. 
*wah i just notice i spelled CREATIVE JUICES AS CRETIVE JUICES.. damn my english is bad
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008