Developing throughout our DNA

Moving on, I started making more research throughout the internet where I found some Ted talks on the YouTube channel which work really well with the concept mentioned in the last blog. One of the videos was called ‘’Art as empowerment: the virtue of art therapy by Ann Lawton’’ (Uploaded by TEDx Talks). Where in this talk she is giving out her own personal experience throughout her life, how she was always using art to visualize herself - showing means of symbolism done by simple lines. Despite the fact, she kept building on her talk by saying how she managed to build up her personality by the use of her artistic love which by time she is able to share her knowledge to help other people who suffer from any kind of problems. Another good example which also goes hand in hand with the topic is how art has been implanted for thousands of years into the human’s DNA, which by time always evolves; that when we were just children we used to like to draw lines with bright colors on paper or on the wall. This was done because we used to feel good about it and continued doing it that by then, we started obeying certain rules and by the time we got older we started hearing people say that art is not a good career to work on and confuses us by other subjects. This relates mostly to the same question I asked in the beginning how it could be able to change the view or how the brain processes this. Sometimes it’s so scary to produce something because they could be judged or pointed at but by this it’s allowing them to step forward and in their darkest fear they will be able to show courage and hope which are done from the simplest random materials such as newspapers.

References:

TEDx Talks, (2016). Art as Empowerment: The Virtue of Art Therapy | Ann Lawton | TEDxUWRiverFalls. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPszGBfjuOY&t=168s  [Accessed 13 Jan. 2017].