Hughes 5,7,8 Pierce 8,9

Hughes-
Hughes describes that the role of creativity is seen through out the unconscious mind. I was impressed by Sigman Freud's "the unconscious consits of element derived from the individuals past that are kept out of consciousness because they are personally or socially unacceptable but continue to exert an effect on conscious thought and behavior." So a past experience can greatly affect what is presently going on in your work of art. Art is a communication to others. Art as Hughes stated " is the ability of art to transmit emotion is one of the qualities that we value most." Maybe that is why most artist or people who are sick developer an artistic skill. I thought it was funny when the grapes painted by Apelle looked so real that sparrows were picking at them. I thought it was a great reference to Winnicotts description of a child vs. mother ( art as comfort blanket). Towards the end I think that the child's dreaming state is an idea for my final paper.

Pierce-
I think Pierces clearing of the forest relates to his cosmic egg theory because in order for one to see the light in the forest or see the crack in the egg, they must experience it and believe that their is a lesson or reason behind what they are seeking. He states " we can be integrated with ourselves and understand our true position and potential only by personally experiencing the full mode of our mind which is a mind that shades into the past." And the culture that we live in affects the crack or the light "A culture is the symbolic expression of developed habitual ways of experience as a whole." "The Forest shapes according to the light of the clearing." I think Pierce is trying to say that the way you perceive things to be or believe in them will somehow shape the "light" that you will see in the forest.