Art and Self-Creation

Art and Self-Creation: The Roots of Creativity and Innovation proposes using the metaphor of the Complex Adaptive System to think about the human,
embedded into environments that trigger change in that human. The nature of
that change, however, is determined by the internal organization of the human;
interconnected, interdependent, adaptable nodes that include Nothingness (as
described by Sartre), Other People (as the condition where awareness begins),
The World, Emotional Management, The Self, and Creative Visualization. As
the human faces internal or environmental triggers for change, he or she
experiences ambiguity, existential anxiety and emotional turmoil. In order to
reorient him or herself in the new situation two sensemaking questions must be
answered: What is happening here? And Who will I be in this situation? Artistic
self-expression provides the ideal practice to lift the fog of emotional turmoil
and to simultaneously create and discover identity constructive answers for
those questions.