Reflection
Essay
2014-01-31
Jonath Mathew
2014-01-31
Jonath Mathew
Where does
creativity hide?
To measure
and understand creativity requires a careful amount of time to reflect. Can we
measure it? Is there some sort of level system like a video game? The more we
practice the better we become to grasp the nature of it?
On a
personal level, creativity is similar to an unknown force. We all have it yet there
is no absolute answer of what exactly it is.
For me
creativity began at an early stage. Without knowing what it was, I was soaked
in creativity by my brother who is five years older than I. When I was small my
brother had one dream, to work as a film director. Today he has almost achieved
that goal; he currently works as a movie producer in Sweden for a well-known
production company. As I observed and wanted to accomplish a similar way of
success as my brother I started to imitate him. I started to listen to the same
music, watch tons of movies and copied his way of acting out various tasks.
However,
what my brother had that I lacked was the way of socializing. I had a hard time
to meet new people and only stuck to a couple of friends when I was young.
Thankfully
that changed, as I got older. When I started to get an interest in photography,
which occurred as a mere coincident, I could finally adapt my brother’s way of
thinking, and that was to be myself.
It was at
that point, when I started photography that creativity bloomed and tangled me.
With my early stages, being influenced by my brother I had an easy way of
expressing my skills and thoughts into photography. I learnt how to understand
people, socialize, in order to achieve the best result of in my line of work.
Today I have managed to work successfully as a photographer, but feel like
there is something else I want to try. Hopefully I can apply what I learnt from
my brother to what ever I am aiming towards today.
