Describe
your 5 senses. Which are your favorites and least favorites?
This month’s Blog Carnival** topic is the five senses. You
know, sense of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. This got us thinking about
which or our senses most drive our work. On reflection, to our surprise, the
“big 5” didn’t even make the list.
Sense of wonder
Sense of humor
Sense of Responsibility
Sense of place
Sense of Security
Sense of Community
Sense of equilibrium
Sense of Purpose
Sense of Outrage
Sense
of entitlement
Sense
of shame
Sense of Motion
Sense of Horror
Common Sense
A sense of perpetual
wonder – at the world we live in – is what makes us anxious to jump out of
bed in the morning. Each day is an adventure that brings both good and bad, all
of which pulls, pushes and transforms the work that gets filtered through our
experience and perceptions of the of the world around us.
These experiences inevitably stimulate other senses which
bubble to the surface of our work in many strange ways. Sometimes they manifest
themselves as conscious statements, as when our sense of humor
or sense of outrage
is triggered.
Other times, we find ideas creeping into the work because of
our sense of community or sense of place.
We have a sense of
responsibility to the people around us, coupled with a strong sense of purpose in what we are doing.
This has in no small part contributed to a sense
of equilibrium and a sense of
security in ourselves, each other, and our work.
** Blog Carnival is the random zeitgeist of EtsyMetal, a loose cabal of international creative conspirators dedicated to overthrowing the global lack of imagination.
