What Makes this event different?
Our purpose is to share the journeys of our contributors as they explore their experience. We present writings, reflections and artistic pieces to inspire new ideas, new explorations, and new questions, sparking opportunities to tap into the richness and multidimensionality of experience. Every work presented in New Perspectives is a work in progress, because creative inquiry never settles on a final answer. We embrace the unfolding of insight without being bound by its conclusions.
Copyright Policy
Artists maintain all rights to their works and those offered publication may display their pieces in galleries, festivals or shows.
The Center for Creative Inquiry is calling in artists to share diverse expressions of curiosity and inquiry, connecting to themes that can awaken the knowledge held in our hearts. Writers, artists and collectives working in any discipline suitable for online publication are encouraged to submit their work. Our goal is to share the journeys of artists as they explore their own experience. We present pieces that will inspire the viewer to tap into the richness and multidimensionality of life.
A new theme is activated every 8 weeks. During each cycle, selected works from the previous contest will be published while submissions for the current contest are being accepted. We encourage each theme to serve as an invitation to create something new. The theme for the first cycle is “Reflection of the Moon”, and we invite artists to read and reflect on the passage and create something based on what it brings up for you:
"If the eye sees the moon reflected in the waters of a river, the present experience is the continuously changing flow of water illuminated by the light of the moon. But then we name it, calling it ‘the reflection of the moon,’ and we verify the truth of that name in succeeding moments. Repeatedly confirming the echo of our initial perception, we perceive a static image of the moon, while the ‘present’ play of light on water recedes from view." Adapted from Love of Knowledge by Tarthang Tulku.
