- an introductory act or step
- leading action
- readiness and ability in initiating action
- enterprise
- one's personal, responsible decision
- the power or ability to begin or to follow through energetically with a plan or task; enterprise and determination.
Initiative : similar meanings according to http://thesaurus.reference.com/
- enterprise
- enthusiasm
- drive
- action
- and more
When I decided a few years ago to move into the realms of the art glass world and subsequently educated myself practically and research wise, the posibilities of what I would be able to do with glass were enormous.
My tertiary education at NMMU (B. Tech Fine Art specializing in Warm Glass Techniques) taught me how to think beyond the obvious and create glass that's more than just throwing together a few pieces of glass and see what the kiln spits out.
I also figured out that I would really want to take my view on glass beyond the confines of my own amusement and outlined the basic principles of my anticipated glass business as follows:
- practical homeware (yes, one has to make a living after all)
- using my glass to express thoughts and issues affecting our society (local and at large)
- creating sustainable projects (job creation)
- glass as my personal creative outlet
As my ideas for the glass studio will - in time - reach way beyond me and my kiln, I decided that Initiative would be the right description for what I wanted to do ..... hence... the birth of The Glass Initiative.
Glass, light and transparency, translate to rainbow colours. Living in South Africa for the past 25 years, being ingrained in this society and aiming to develop projects and work that reflect on our rainbow nation, it was only fitting to incorporate the rainbow concept that in what I want to represent.
A quote by Katherine Patterson expresses precisely what I mean
" The name we give to something shapes our attitude to it."
No comments:
Post a Comment