Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 7. Literature Review (pt 1 of 2) This research draws from the area of visual art studies, English literature critiques, psychology, philosophy and...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 6. Introduction This thesis looks at the issue of the creative process that operates in the mind and the heart of artists, which was developed...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 5. Abstract This thesis describes an exploration of the processes of conception of inspiration and application in art-making through making art...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 4. Lists (icons, diagrams, graphs, figures) List of icons used within the body text: = ‘see appendix’. = ‘a DVD disc of the film is enclosed...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 2. Dedication To the one who is walking beside me for thousands of years now, my wife, and the one who reminds me why we are here, my child. I am...
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...
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....
By Dr. Gil Dekel page 41 (in the printed book) The Universe is perfect, and it has no agenda. If people have an agenda, the Universe provides them with all the tools to act and change and achieve their agenda. The Universe empowers humans to evolve, but it will...
By Dr. Gil Dekel page vii (in the printed book) This book contains old wisdom that we have forgotten. page x You will find something new in this book – a New You, and a way to create a New World… This is part 1. Go to part >1 >2 >3 ...
by Dr. Gil Dekel. I have developed the Streaming Knowledge method (SKM) on the teachings of Dr. Amikam Marbach, Carl Jung and other scholars. The method helps people generate ideas, make effective literature search and write articles (or produce...
How can I help?...To heal any issue we need to treat the root cause of the problem, and not just the external symptoms. You and I will uncover the cause of your discomfort, be it physical or spiritual – so that we can deal with it, heal it, and move on in life....
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