Exercise 2: Manifesto

    • Exercise 2: ManifestoBuilding on your self-appraisal, how do you generate new ideas and sustain your practice? Where do ideas come from? What’s your plan of action? Why make it at all? What are your motivations? For this exercise, consider your future practice, your dreams, aspirations and your ambition. Create a specific and personal manifesto – a mission statement, a call to action – which outlines your motives and will aid the longevity and sustainability of your creative methods and ideas. This should start to define your practice, what’s important to you, what you hope to achieve, and how you can achieve it. At this early stage of the course unit, it’s important to outline your motives and goals and identify how you can develop and expand your practice. Review the following document to assist you in developing your manifesto. When you have completed your manifesto, share it with the Student Manifestos Padlet so that other students can read it too.
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  • EXTERNAL TOOLStudent Manifestos PadletPer Project 3 Exercise 2, share your specific and personal manifesto on this Padlet.

”The Kites” is a beautiful uplifting Greek orchestral song composed by the amazing Mikis Theodorakis for the theatrical play << The Neighbourhood of The Angels>> (1963).

<<melancholia, formerly the psychological condition known as depression. The term now refers to extreme features of depression, especially the failure to take pleasure in activities.>>

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “melancholia”. Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Apr. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/science/melancholia-psychology. Accessed 5 June 2023.

Melancholia is based on an ancient Greek term. It comes from the complexity of ”Melas” meaning black and ”Choli” which is the intestines or (in New Greek) the bile. This means when you are unhappy about something, your inner self turns black, rotten, and dies.

Everybody has their sad times. I realize that when I’m using disciplines of any kind to express myself, that melancholia disappears leaving me with a sense of achievement, a moment of personal triumph.

From a young age, I discovered that being creative is moving a burden off of me, and is taking the clouds of my soul away. I have chosen a creative path in my life but something was always missing, until I found OCA which is taking me on a marvellous journey.

I find writing quite soothing.

Photography with a comment on the side, the way I see and interpret the world around me also gives me a thrill.

The best of all is telling a story using multimedia: music, poetry, photos and moving pictures.

My goal is to express myself.

My goal is to find ways to get deeper inside me and take as much as possible.

My goal is to leave art to take me on a lifetime journey.

My goal is to feel free and happy.