JPC Transcripts - Part 2

The following are the transcripts found in Creativity Section on JPC website. Part 2: 180 Degrees The most powerful creative technique provides an opportunity for you to shift your perspective. The most powerful technique of all is reversal – shift your perspective 180 degrees. Make an observation or an assertion, then make an observation from an opposite perspective or assert the opposite. Use it as a tool for exploration. Many ideas will come to life. It may take a little practice to find a real utility in any technique. So don’t give up to quickly, you’ll also find every technique has its limitations. This technique leads you towards framing things as dichotomies – “either… or” choices, rather than dialectics or "spectrum of possibilities". How is this helps me? Let me count the ways. Here is one - it has been tremendously stimulating for me to constantly shift between making minimally altered photographs and highly altered images. John Paul Caponigro - "is one of the most creative visual artists working today. Dedicated to fostering the growth of creativity in others, he exhibits, writes, lectures, and teaches seminars and digital photography workshops. Inspiring conscientious creative interaction, his life's work is a call to connection with our natural world, with each other, and with ourselves. This site will answer all of your questions about John Paul - who, what, where, when, how, and why. You can explore a web of connections to individuals and communities he interacts with".