Journal of Creativity and Inspiration PERSPECTIVE Opening drawers in my memory: a sculptor’s creative process Silvia Contarelli [Author info] 6 September 2023 – Vol 1, Issue 1. Inspiration and art. I have often wondered what links these two together, and if one...
Journal of Creativity and Inspiration EDITORIAL Artificial Intelligence in the service of art Gil Dekel [Author info] 6 September 2023 – Vol 1, Issue 1. Artists have continuously pushed the boundaries of their craft, finding inspiration in the world outside and...
Journal of Creativity and Inspiration FEATURE AI: from ancient times to present day Gil Dekel and Ekaterina Pretsch [Authors info] 6 September 2023 – Vol 1, Issue 1. The desire to create intelligent machines is not a new phenomenon. Throughout history, people...
Journal of Creativity and Inspiration PERSPECTIVE Preserving artistic integrity while creating AI art Gil Dekel [Author info] 6 September 2023 (this article was pre-published on 19 August 2023) – Vol 1, Issue 1. As an artist, I am looking for a process in...
Poetry Maker Tool Select a few words from the text, and click ‘Cut out’. You can also add your own text. A tool to create new meanings. Select a few words that resonate with you, then click ‘cut out’ to show the words and hide all the rest. A...
01. Thesis Title Page Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice Gil Dekel Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirementsfor the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Portsmouth May 2009[formatted for the web...
Conceptual Art Composition Typography Research skills Inspiration in art and design Abstraction in art and design The Creative Thinking Process Learning To See: concepts in photography UX and UC...
Simple, cheap and easy arts you can do with the kids. I have tried all the activities here; some worked well, others could be improved (I noted in the post what could be improved, so that you know when you try out). All posts below are embedded from my Facebook page....
By Gil and Natalie Dekel. Below are ideas for art projects that we are planning to carry in our gallery – but the ideas are not complete. They are still general, in a proposal stage, and need some reshaping before we can actually produce them. We are sharing the ideas...
Natalie and Gil’s ‘State of The Art’ Centre Art & Wellbeing space: Meditations, Yoga, Arts, Reiki & Psychic development. Contact / Book a visit here Current: from April 2022 Art for World Peace. Free entry. You can take part ! You do not need to...
By Dr. Gil Dekel. pages 342 (in the printed book) We are able to give to relationships everything we wish to receive from them. 343 Love and freedom are the same thing. To love is to grant freedom to your beloved. Free means Free to do everything. There is no...
By Dr. Gil Dekel. pages 328-329 (in the printed book) Relationships between people are not designed to help people find joy and happiness, but to create joy and happiness. To create completion, and fulfilment. This is part 12. Go to part >1 >2 >3 ...
By Dr. Gil Dekel. page 302 (in the printed book) Asking our children to memorize facts in schools is like asking them to re-create the past. Yet, if we invite a child to explore concepts and ideas – such as fairness, tolerance, honesty – we then invite them to...
By Dr. Gil Dekel. page 263 (in the printed book) Soon people will not just know themselves to be One with everything, but they will also feel this unity. The unity of all things will be experienced. This will change many things in life. For example, people will no...
By Dr. Gil Dekel. page 223 (in the printed book) All of Life is holy. All in Life leads us to our Truth, even those events/things that we disagree with. Thus, judge not, and do not condemn a thing. Even those things that you disagree with are helping you. Such things...
By Dr. Gil Dekel. page 199 (in the printed book) Question are more important than answers. Answers are not always creative. As soon as you think you have an answer, you stop creating. Answers can kill creation. Wisdom – having the right question, not the right...
By Dr. Gil Dekel. page 166 (in the printed book) We have all arrived at the world to save it from its own mistaken notion of itself; from the forgetfulness of Who We Really Are. You are the hope of humanity This is part 7. Go to part >1 >2 >3 >4 ...
By Dr. Gil Dekel. page 137 (in the printed book) The very act of expecting to be something, prevents us from being it… To expect something is to feel that we are not now experiencing it. Either we experience something, or we are expecting it. We cannot do both...
By Dr. Gil Dekel. 96 Right now our instincts are telling us that we are destroying the planet, and that we need to change our actions – yet, we tend to ignore this knowledge; we tend to continue destroy the world. This is part 5. Go to part >1 >2 ...
By Dr. Gil Dekel. page 67 (in the printed book) Life is God. It has no shape, no form, no gender, no colour, no fragrance, no size. It is all shapes, all forms, all colours, sizes, genders, genderless… It is All, Everything, including the No-Thing from which...
By Dr. Gil Dekel page 51 (in the printed book) Creating is fun. 52 Become self-aware; aware that you have consciousness. Look at the mirror and ask yourself ‘Who?’ with a long oooo. Do it the next 100 times you look at yourself in the mirror. This is part 3....
- Reading with Natalie, book here...