Graffiti: More Than Just Writing on the Wall
Post a Comment
Photo credit: Anarchosyn (Flickr image)
The Guardian’s Homa Khaleeli writes about graffiti being more than big business and how it can be a team-building exercise and bring positive influence in a recession.
If you cover pages in meetings with your doodlings, and fear looking slightly unprofessional, don’t worry. Experts say even something as simple as these spattered marks on a notebook can help bring art and creativity into the workplace. And with cutbacks, redundancies and job insecurity, this is something we all need more of, according to Val Huet, chief executive of the British Association of Arts therapists.
“As children, we make sense of the world through play,” she says. “If something is scary or worrisome then often art is used to process this. So when children are getting stuck into making something it might look like a mess but, to them, it could have a story that helps them to work something out … it’s the same thing with older people. If you are bored in a meeting you might doodle – this is a positive thing to do, making marks on a paper, because it gives you another mode of thinking and processing. Giving professionals the space to play really helps them reconnect with creativity.”
Read more at The Guardian.
This post was mentioned on Twitter by Brenda Goodwin, Moleskiners. Moleskiners said: Writing Techniques for Advanced Blog Writing: Photo: [...]