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Creativity thread

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Please share anything you make in any way.

So, some examples: drawing, photography, digital art, painting, illustration, knitting, weaving, baking etc etc.

I will upload something myself at some point soon.

It doesn't have to be your own if you would like to share something from someone/somewhere else that you like.

  • in reply to Ndovu

    It would indeed, but many of the replicas have been accurately reproduced and are difficult to tell from originals.

    I had the loan of some Iron Age figurines a while back, but they are now back safely with the university so that others can study and enjoy them.

    I have a collection of replica Neolithic and Iron Age figurines from Syria, Lebanon and Israel. Most were reproduced using moulds, but my pride and joy is a figurine that was made through a process of experimental archaeology. The clay was sourced from the site of the original, and it was shaped by hand, dried and fired on the same site by a student archaeologist. 

  • in reply to Akage

    You are very talented.

    Some of that could have been taken from my life events. The dialogue is easy to follow, yet it has depth.

  • in reply to profdanger

    I'm amazed and delighted I've joined this forum, love the creativity being shown and in such a safe space too

  • in reply to B

    I’m very thankful for this thread. Of course we’ve had other creativity threads just like this, but I think a refresh is good for us to bring up ones that have been buried in the other threads. Huge example being  ‘s comic, which I think is good for us to be reminded of every once in a while (especially since that is a work in progress).

  • I only started this 4 days ago and it's had 163 replies.

    Brilliant!

    Thank you all.

    You are a creative lot.

    Blush

  • in reply to Akage

    Very relatable, and drawing skills are just impressive!

  • in reply to Alexa

    Love the way it seems to glow, beautiful image manipulation 

  • in reply to Akage

    I followed your link. It is incredible how you portray that feeling of the voices beginning more and more overwhelming. I sometimes can't understand graphic novels as drawings of faces confuse me but this is so relatable!

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Yes, though it would be so cool to have originals!

  • in reply to Akage

    I relate a lot to both, right now the first one from the top. It's quarter to 2 am, I took a second pill and still struggling to fall asleep. 

  • in reply to Jamesmac

    Fab! I especially like the flying battleship one - it was always the vehicles that had me hooked rather than the characters as it were - but then I grew up with "thunderbirds" - where the vehicles were somehow more convincing than the characters to watch!  I've moved into using paint markers recently - mainly for smaller areas of paint - they're really good!  paint technology has improved so much from when i spilled enamel silver paint on my mum's table covering and table in our living room as a kid!  Do the gundam figures and vehicles have narrative "universe" that they come from - anime or video?

  • in reply to Akage

    Hi   Yep, I can really relate to those images, They remind me of how I felt around the time of my diagnosis, before I rebuilt my sense of self. Looking back, I don't think it was strictly social anxiety for me—it was more about the anxiety of just existing in society!

  • in reply to ArchaeC
    Thanks for the context,  . That actually ties in really well with a fascinating crossover I've been looking into recently—what you could call the "archaeology" of linguistics.
    Just as you look at physical artifacts like figurines to map the record of human thought possibilities, historical linguists map language "family trees." By systematically comparing vocabulary and grammar across different cultures, linguists can reverse-engineer modern tongues to reconstruct ancient, unwritten proto-languages.
    When you boil these languages down to their earliest roots, they always seem to correlate directly with a shared, baseline human nature. Every ancient language relies on the exact same core conceptual machinery—distinguishing who did an action, what they did, and who it affected. The deep structural data shows that the fundamental machinery of human nature and the human brain really hasn't changed.
    My post about the Sepik figurine is a perfect example of this. The cultural paradox I mentioned—where women are barred from the physical spirit houses, yet the entire structure is spiritually dominated by female energy—is explicitly encoded as a behavioral artifact in their language.
    Linguists studying the Sepik region note that the very words used to describe the architecture of the Haus Tambaran frame the building as a 'womb' or a 'mother's belly'. Furthermore, their ancient origin myths encode the linguistic memory that spiritual power originally belonged to women.
    If language is treated as an artifact, we can draw some highly credible anthropological inferences from it. While this approach admittedly relies heavily upon the physical artifact of writing to give us concrete historical benchmarks, looking at language as archaeology offers a robust, empirical track. It shows that while external social rules and trends 'change like the weather,' the underlying cognitive layout remains entirely consistent across thousands of years.
  • in reply to Phased
    Phased said:
    Personally I suspect that (male and female) brains haven't changed a huge amount in all those thousands of years and notwithstanding that there'll be all sort of graduations across the scale and exceptions proving a rule (which I am absolutely all up for!) there's likely some sort of playing out of "basic" human nature there - so finding similarities across vast distances/cultures and the passage of time is kindof "does what it says on the tin" if you know what i mean?

    I do know what you mean and studies of the archaeological records have actually demonstrated that ancient humans (their brains) were not that different from ourselves with regard to their ability to communicate, produce sophisticated art, pottery and carved or moulded objects, food production, hunt, travel etc. All archaeologists that I know of would say the same thing. The anthropologists, I am not so familiar with, even though some cross over to archaeology, as archaeologist cross over too.

    Archaeologists love saying things like, “this is possible …” and “that is possible …” which frustrates some people. But we are also very good at saying the evidence makes “such and such likely” or “almost certain” or “very unlikely”. I don’t think any archaeologist would suggest that a comparison can prove a figurine’s meaning and function, it’s more exploring the record of human thought possibilities (and ruling out some things), given the similar or dissimilar time and space. If the context of the figurine is intact, there are lots of things we can say with certainty about the person or people who made the object/s.

  • Here are a few pictures from a webcomic I've been making for a while. I started it pre diagnosis to share experiences of social anxiety. 

    There's not a lot of it, it takes me quite a while to finish, just picking away at it when I have the necessary reserves of patience. Here's the site where it lives:

    stargazinginthecity.wordpress.com/

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    sorry - I don't know the wood type this is just a bit of the collection - that includes basket woven pigs, some really fab carved faces, bowls, tapas cloths and woven "billum" bags.  My good lady wife spent dome time working out there about 40 odd years ago and had a few adventures travelling and trading - I have only had the fortune to meet a few people from PNG and they were all lovely although i'm sure there are all sorts everywhere.  I'm kindof in awe at their artistic skills as the pieces we have in our house demonstrate.