Wherever one looks one sees a creation of one form or another. Whether it be a finely-laced curtain, a plastic bottle of soda, a piece of paper, a house, a tree or even a lump of rock, one sees something at some stage of the creative process.
While a lot could be said of the natural creative processes that have formed soils, mountains and worlds, I would like to focus more upon the human creative process. As humans ourselves, we ought to be better placed to understand the processes involved in anything we do, including our creations. Yet, alas, we have an all too familiar tendency these days to interpret that which we do in an almost purely economic fashion. We create to satisfy our needs and to make ourselves wealthier and to afford ourselves a better life.
While this way of thinking is in itself valid, I would like to take a step away from this tendency and instead take on a more atomistic and interest-light perspective of the creative process. The reason that I do this is because when we analyze any particular term within a context we also tend to limit ourselves to the jargon of the field considered.
And so, without further ado, the stages of creation:
- The Conceptualist (One who glimpses a possibilities in the mind’s eye)
- The Articulator (One who expresses that vision coherently)
- The Designer (One who re-expresses in a fashion suitable for creation)
- The Initiator (One who possesses the resources required for creation)
- The Administrator (One who manages resources effectively for creation)
- The Artisan (One who utilizes resources for creation)
- The Evaluator (One who evaluates the quality of the creation)
Each of these seven roles is essential and the lack of any one results in an inferior creation or no creation at all. I shall expand upon each another day.
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