Module VIII
Soulmaking (Soul, Sound, Structure)
At the end of this module, the pre-service teachers (PST) are expected to:
1. Discuss the concept of “soulmaking”;
2. Develop students’ artistic potentials through soulmaking;
3. Enhance students’ sensitivity and awareness towards their environment; and
4. Characterize and defines narratives, appropriation, borrowings, and ownership of
the artist or any agency in the art world.
Soulmaking is an alternative venue for knowing ourselves and looking into the
depths and real meaning of what we are doing for our everyday life. (Narciso 2012) It
aims to develop the artist in us awakening the art in us that has been stagnant or
undeveloped for numerous years.
Soulmaking is an exploration and application of the imagination in an active way.
it is a form of crafting stories or transforming brief moments into images are symbols does
connect with people understanding culture and embodying tolerance and peace. It can
be an innate or learned skill or a combination of both. It opens door for multiple
intelligences of expression.
In making art, an artist or artisan or even ordinary person utilizes imagination to
survive and live. Imagination is an important tool in developing an artwork. Where the
substance and meaning of the artwork are formed.
Categories of soul making
1. Crafting images - refers to imaging or representing in any form which may be
through painting sculpting drawing storytelling poetry dancing composing or taking
notes; it's just like weaving quilting or doing crochet quilting or doing crochet it is
not creating works out of nothing if this Rooter in their own personal experience is
our personal and counters and events the triggered are reflection recall and
judgement
2. Crafting stories- the moment we write engrave and inscribed our own thoughts
ideas commentaries criticisms and positive and negative emotions
3. crafting instrument - transforming any found or use object in an into a musical
instrument allows one to discover harmony and balance to produce a sound that
is entertaining and handsome and magical
4. Crafting movements - our life is full of movements it is filled with various beats
life is full of flowing images accompanied by following narratives everything we
do in life is performance we perform live at times with the past to capture the
movements of for energy and the world
5. Crafting techniques- anything can be crafted by using different evocative
descriptions of life experiences and explorations like photograph studies puppets
and mask constructions and notepad studies
Seven Da Vincian Principles
1. Curiosita: An insatiable curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for
continuous learning
2. Dimonstrazione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience,
persistence and a willingness to learn from past mistakes. This is pretty much the
scientific method applied to everyday life.
3. Sensazione: Continual refinement of the senses as the means to enliven
experience. To be innovative we must be aware of what is going on around us.
4. Sfumato: The literal translation for this term is going up in smoke. It is about our
willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox and uncertainty. As the old saying
goes, the only two things that are certain in business are uncertainty and change.
5. Arte/Scienza: Developing a balance between logic and imagination. After all,
imagination without logic is day dreaming, and logic without imagination is boring.
Other terms for this are balancing between art and science as well as whole brain
thinking.
6. Corporalita: This is about maintaining a healthy body as well as a healthy mind.
Have you ever seen a really unhealthy person who was creative? While there are
a few exceptions here and there, they are very rare. One of the core concepts of
da Vinci’s approach is keeping our bodies fit being a function of keeping our minds
fit. Fit minds lead to more innovative and creative solutions.
7. Connessione: This is the simple recognition of the interconnectedness of all
things and phenomena.
Ownership- generally pertains to the general right of a person or an individual to control
an object purchase or in his possession
Copyright- exclusive rights to reproduce to display publicly and distribute copies and to
prepare derivative works based on the original artwork as well as to authorize those
mention.
Appropriation- refers to borrowing images that are recognizable from different sources
and using this various image to make a new art form.
➢ appropriate artistic content and appropriate who adapt items
➢ allows the viewer to recognize the origin of the borrowed images and objects
as well as the original context
➢ the aim of the artist's direct contextualizes the borrowed object or image
through different steps such as enlargement or reputation of the image framing
or translation across mediums
Forgery
➢ it is also called copying trying to deceive the viewers into thinking that they
are looking at an original work of art.
Cultural appropriation- appropriation that occurs across the boundaries of culture this
means that a person with a certain culture take subjects created by a person or a group
of persons of another culture and uses this object for his or her own.
Types of cultural appropriation
1. Object appropriation- they are noticeable previously owned by a people from one
culture was taken and adopted by a person or group of persons from another
culture an example of object appropriation is transferring a temple from north
America to museum in Europe
2. Content appropriation - refers to adoption of works of art that are intangible
examples of these works of art are the short stories poetry and musical
compositions this happen when an intangible work previously expressed by people
from one culture was adopted and use per person or group of persons from another
culture
3. Subject appropriation- occurs when a subject matter from another culture is
appropriated an example of this is a british writer creating a story about pacific
islanders; subject appropriation can be morally unacceptable
4. Motif appropriation-This form is related to stylistic appropriation. Sometimes
artists are influenced by the art of a culture other than their own without creating
works in the same style.
5. Style appropriation