What is Art?

Polina Yakumenko

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I look around and wonder if we, people, have taken Art as solely our own creation, although it's not quite so. Art is everything I see and experience around me.

I wonder, though, if Art is an Act of Creation or an Act of Being? Is Art something that I intentionally make; or is it something that is happening every moment without me needing to try hard, having skill, or an intention to create?

Art is born from impulse. The wind blows, takes the leaf from a tree, and carries it to the lake, the leaf gently touches the water, and fluid circles emerge from this touch. What a beautiful image! Is it an act of creation or an act of being?

The impulse is always there: the heartbeat, the breath, a sudden spark of a joy, sadness or an idea; a smell of a flower, a touch of a surface. I don't have to search for impulses. I have to learn to notice them, and have the courage to let them evolve.

Every impulse is a new movement, a new chance, a transformation being born. Every transformation is a new piece of Art.

July 2023, written at European Graduation School. Switzerland, Saas Fee

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Polina Yakumenko

Certified Expressive Arts Facilitator from Step ahead!
Expressive Arts Institute Berlin, pursuing a master's
degree at the European Graduate School

Certified Art Therapy Practitioner from the International Training Company "Osnova" by Olena Tararina

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