Creative Projects
The aim of the Creative Project is to stimulate the students’ imagination in creating an artefact or other output which reflects their engagement with the programme material, which is unique and personal. The Creative Project can take the form of a play, musical composition,video, artwork, personal narrative, case-study or other approved item closely relating to the course material.
Love the Fig – Jill Pickering
My creative project explores “the fecundating, magical action of the symbol on the mind” (Pietro Negri, 2001, p 91). In a sense this phrase perfectly encapsulates the aims and effects of the transformative material we have encountered on the MA, as the creative project is noted as ‘the heart of the MA’.
Zodiac – Music by Eduard Heyning
My creative project is called Zodiac, music composed and performed with additional poetry on the twelve star signs, presented on the 27th of September 2014 in St. Gregory’s church in Canterbury.
The Journey of the Soul – A Play by Janet Saunders
In this review I will set out my starting thoughts, hopes and values. Then there are two journeys that follow. One is through the ideas gleaned from my sources, in particular the Corpus Hermeticum, Ficino’s Three Books on Life and the thought of Ibn ‘Arabi. The idea of the soul making a journey from the divine realm to earth and back...
The Alchemy Project – Louise Bunn
Alchemy is not merely a laboratory process to discover the elixir of life or the Philosophers’ Stone but was understood to also be a metaphysical process, concerned with the development of the soul. For my CP I decided I wanted to do a series of paintings working with the rich symbolism of the alchemical process that would lead to an appreciation of the stages of alchemy as stages of the souls journey to wholeness - of becoming a fully realised human being. In the course of doing this project I wanted to let chance happenings or synchronicities guide me to a certain extent. I found this approach to be liberating in that I could allow the paintings to come through me rather than from me. The paintings are meant to be meditated upon.
Chakra Therapy and the Imaginal: Transformation and Healing Through Image – Franceska Jones
I’ve been interested in the relationship between these two concepts for some time – chakra therapy as a form of bio-energetic healing and the imaginal as a realm in which we can locate symbolic images that also have the potential to transform and heal us.
Petite Pandora An Archetypal Adventure – Jodie Miller
Petite Pandora - An Archetypal AdventureI wrote and illustrated a children’s story based on the ‘Fool’s Journey’ of the tarot cards, which sees the main character Pandora embark on a quest for self-realisation by facing the archetypal forces of...
Sacred Journeys from the Centre – Viki Hall
The inspiration for my creative project came when Angela Voss introduced Ficino's 'Book of Life' and the idea of creating an image of the cosmos to contemplate in your home. I had a powerful reaction and decided to create my own version:
Giving Shape to Dreams – Simão Cortês
Dreams are strange things. Whether we regard them as prophetic, psychoanalytic or merely as the reorganization of cognitive material during sleep, the truth is that they affect us. We wake up drenched in cold sweat, laughing, panting or crying because of dreams. Once I was so scared during a dream that I woke up to the sound of my own voice praying a Hail Mary.
Wild Beasts and Hierophants: The Lost Faces of Wisdom – Dani Charis Hawkyard
The inspiration for this Creative Project snuck up on me quite unexpectedly - rather like a wild beast in the forest creeps up on its unsuspecting prey. I’ve never thought much about masks before - other than being slightly alarmed by them as a child - so the unprecedented notion of doing a whole project on them took me by surprise.
Sophia of Canterbury – Judith Way
“Sophia herself is not fourth to the Holy Trinity, but rather is the matrix of the divine creative power and as such is the bride of Logos or bridegroom.
A Psycho-Spiritual Self Reflection – Tanya Adolpho
A psycho-spiritual self-reflection tool that started the essential conversation that I needed to prepare for my own death.
Vesica Piscis – Janice Emmott
The vesica piscis is an ancient symbol with many meanings in cultures all over the world. It often symbolises a portal or bridge between between earthly and transcendent realms. I decided to explore this symbol for my creative project, and made a painted, printed and sewn cloth with vesical designs for contemplation and meditating on. I also some other art works - they were quite different from anything I've done before. This was truly a journey of creative discovery and 'embodied spirituality' for me, which was very healing.