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I WAS HERE
Anaïs Nin once said, “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” This quote will forever be true to me. During my recent visit to Singapore, I was invited to visit the National University of Singapore (NUS) where I had a chance to visit the University Cultural Center.
I WAS HERE is a big sculpture, which beautifies the entrance of the NUS museum where I discovered four collections and more than 8,000 artifacts and artworks of ancient Chinese materials, Indian classical sculptures, modern and contemporary Chinese, Southeast Asian, and Singaporean art. The NUS Museum also serves as a vital curricular resource, providing an exciting learning experience for students.
While touring the museum, I thought about how the artifacts and artworks of ancient times were so uniquely made and about how creativity and innovation are linked together. I then read this beautiful statement in the museum’s newsletter: “Art encourages creative thinking and lets you come up with your own unique solutions. Unlike, math, there is no one correct answer in art! Out-of-the-box thinking also stimulates your brain.”
To me, it all seemed to boil down to this: Highly creative thinkers have the ability to see the connections that lead to unexpected and original products and creativity is the ability to bring new and valuable things into being.
