Heroes Not Zombies

I love art in nature. It’s always a surprise and when it’s installed in a forest, an old quarry, along the banks of a river…..it just seems to more than double the pleasure for me. It’s as if the creativity of nature and the creativity of a human being multiply each other.

My understanding of the Christian teaching of a creator God who forms human beings “in His likeness”, is that we, too, are creators. But whatever your religious belief it isn’t difficult to see that this universe in which we live is a creative one. Creativity is at the heart and core of evolution. The trajectory of the universe is towards ever greater complexity and diversity….in other words creativity.

I think a lot of people think of creativity as synonymous with art, with music, sculpture, dance, literature and poetry. Well it does lead to all those wonderful activities but every one of us is creative every single day. Every one of us expresses our uniqueness moment by moment. We constantly adapt, we repeatedly solve problems, we never cease to be the heroes of our own stories.

Creativity – it’s what we do.