Imaginations

We often ignore our imaginations and try to find creativity in traditional art. Imaginations are the most powerful form of mind function giving ability to transform them into classic master pieces of invention.

Janet Echelman an artist not by birth. A lady whose ability to think beyond and believing in it made her a true artist. She applied to seven art schools after her college and got rejected. Then painted for 10 years but couldn’t get much light. She finally decided to make some sculptures from bronze but it was very heavy. She wanted something tough to make sculpture and at the same time something soft as silk where one can feel nature, soul and beauty.

Janet went to a village in India for some reason and used to pass by fishermen everyday working on fish nets. She used to observe the tough knots and mounts of nets around her by the sea which gave her a new idea to make sculptures from them. She wanted to make volumetric forms without using solid materials. She made a net with a million and a half tide knots with the help of fishermen installed at Madrid, Spain.

The journey begins from here. Later she made many such sculptures using softest fibers and soothing textures which could stand ultra violet sun rays, pollution, hurricane and salt. The first sculpture big and soft was about 50,000 sq feet. It was an amazing, heartwarming and mesmerizing piece of creativity. People used to come and sit underneath the free floating sculpture and soothe their eyes with the patterns of wind.

This is a small example of how creative human beings are. Imagining and transforming them into things beyond thinking is an art. Art is not traditional thinking but it is making use of imaginations.