GROUP 1: SOUL MAKING

WHAT IS SOUL MAKING?

- has the origin from the Greek word poieo, meaning, to be the author or maker of something; or poiesis,
which means to bring something that did not exist before into being and making plays a major role on art-
production.
- An alternative place to know oneself and to look at the depths and meaning of what we are doing in our
daily life (Narciso,2016)
THE ROLE OF SUL MAKING IN ART:
Soul making is an activity of:
- Knowing Oneself better – “who are you?” is the topic that throughout the process serves as a guidepost.
- Understanding life’s depths and Essence – soul making is more the soul’s religious perspective. Soul refers
to a person’s individuality that resonates with his/her behavior.
- Evaluating what oneself does – art gives a person a sense of purpose about what he or she is doing.
- Learning from everyday experience – soul making is a method that can be gone by anyone. As all are
creative in their own right, it is not limited to the “obviously artistic”
CATEGORIES OF SOUL MAKING
 Crafting Images – to the creation of visual representations of images through different forms and
methods. This process can be done via any art form such as painting, drawing sketching and sculpting.
 Crafting Stories – the moment we write, engrave, and inscribe our own thoughts, ideas, commentaries,
criticisms, and positive and negative emotions, we are crafting stories. Stories that can presented in any
form – image, words, objects, and musical composition.
 Crafting Movements – our life is full of movements; it is filled with various beats. Life id full of flowing
images accompanied by flowing narratives. Everything we do in life is a performance; we perform life.
 Crafting Instruments – an instrument maker is a bridge toward the unknown because the instrument
produces sounds that transcend our feelings, emotions, and sensation in another realm (Narciso 2016)
 Crafting Techniques – anything can be crafted by using different evocative descriptions of experiences
and explorations, like photograph studies, puppets and masks, constructions, and notepad studies.
THE 5 PHASES OF SOUL MAKING
 Seeking – point of self-recognition and knowing that each of us is a seeker
 Settling – communication with the soul, with other human and non-human beings (and this means
the future of humans and non-human) and with the world.
 Surrendering – takes us up and throws us down; calls for the wounds we bear to be accepted;
forces us to spend time living in the darkness.
 Soul Making – where we start growing up with some wisdom looking for the welfare of others.
 Soaring – conquering our wordly experiences of the material realities to travel, which does not
happen if we only want to fly.