From the Gallery Director
The Creativity of a Child
RL Johnson,
Gallery Director
The philosophy of Animatism puts forth the understanding that to be human is to be creative, and that we need only look to our own children, or remember our own childhood, to prove this to ourselves.
Children’s artworks are a pure, truthful, passionate and powerful expression of our own innate creativity.
An animatic perception is that children, particularly very young children, before their ego-self has fully formed, are capable of producing meaningful, significant and transformational works of art. An interesting study in synaptic pathway formation in a child’s cerebral cortex has shown that two-year-old children have approximately twice as many active neural network pathways as adults.
Adult artists wishing to create meaningful, significant, and transformational art are first faced with the daunting challenge of de-activating and escaping from the limitations of their ego-based understandings.
To escape this "net of self" is not an easy task. The ego-self and its opinions, biases, beliefs, prejudices and restrictions are entrenched and powerfully grip the consciousness of the artist.
To go beyond this self-centered state and enter into “animatic space” an artist must first awaken from their dream of self and become like a child again.
Adult artists that successfully enter into “animatic space” during their creative process will create artworks imbued with spirit and universal healing properties.
We are One.
are a pure, truthful, passionate and
powerful expression
of our own
innate
creativity.
