Acrylic
©1993 Charlene
Brown
Research* has
shown that episodic specificity induction – training in recollecting details of
past experiences – improves performance on memory and imagination tasks and enhances
divergent thinking. The ability to recall detail can be increased by forming a
mental image –visualizing – a past or historical event.
Do exercises in episodic
memory improvement through visualization always enhance creativity, or are
creative people better – less restrained – at visualization and more inclined
to do it well?
This painting is an exercise in historic visualization
using umm al nar tomb carvings with an overlaying technique I learned in a workshop with American painter, Douglas Walton. Overlaying, or superimposing,
one image on another adds a new dimension to a painting and produces wonderfully
evocative results. It also provides virtually limitless possibilities for adding
great-looking bits of information and detail to a painting.
*Creativity and Memory: Effects of an Episodic-Specificity
Induction on Divergent Thinking. Madore KP, Addis DR, Schacter DL
