Assignment #2: Aesthetics

       In my opinion aesthetics is seeing things as beautiful. It is about studying everything that we see and describing it as beauty. The four domains of creativity are fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.

These four domains all have different meanings and ideas. The domain fluency is having the ability to think of lots of different ideas. If you have fluency in a certain category, you are good at coming up with many different things or activities to do in that category. Flexibility is being able to move quickly from one idea to the next. In the classroom setting, a teacher must help children to become flexible because subjects taught change throughout each day. The third domain of creativity is originality. Originality is being about to be original and having an idea that is your own. In the real world, originality comes in handy. No one wants to be just like everyone else around them, they want to be original. The final domain of creativity is elaboration. Elaboration is being able to add ideas. Adding ideas to any group setting such as teaching, planning church events, or just working on a group project is vital to success.
       Practical Experience: Watching someone jump into the lake
       Aesthetic Experience: Sitting down into my chair as it surrounds me with comfort I look off to my left and see a large man running towards the lake I am admiring. As I watch the man run quickly, his feet beginning to leave the ground higher and higher with each step, the water looks calm below him. The gap between the water and the man begins to get smaller. Until the gap is gone and suddenly the man and water are one. As the man sinks further the water splashes higher until there is no difference between the man and the water. Soon the water calms and settles back down just as the man's head bursts out of the surface.