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Adding Creativity to the Technical – DP Mavia

by • May 26, 2019

When I was young I used to wait for holidays so that I could at least get some pocket money from gigs at a Paper-making factory. Most of the time we were deployed as casual...

How to Take a Risk – DP Mavia

by • May 26, 2019

Most people have lodged in the mind the adage that ‘you take calculated risks’. How can true risk be calculated? This presupposes that there needs to be a certain if not...

Language as A Limitation of Innovation and Creativity – DP Mavia.

by • May 26, 2019

Language: What is language? It is the vehicle for communicating ideas to one another. It achieves this by use of segments called words. It is generally assumed that verbalizing...

How to Deal with Your Harshest Critics – DP Mavia

by • February 6, 2018

I have just published a book and the excitement of having it distributed is great. This has been a long awaited process finally bearing fruit and lending itself to public...

Four Things that Hinder Your Art – DP Mavia

by • February 6, 2018

Art is thinking and production. Art is theory and practice. Sometimes there are seasons of production of art, where we get stuck to produce or even to conceptualize art. I have...

Value as a Support System for Discipline in Art and Creativity – DP Mavia

by • August 22, 2016

I the other day I wrote a short article titled Discipline as A support System for Art and Creativity. A full reading can be found when you click on the link. In the article I...

Two Hours a Writer – DP Mavia

by • August 22, 2016

I have been glaring at the white space and tapping my keyboard without writing a word for the last two months. I had this incredible idea that this year my writing would be hard...

How to Find Your Art – DP Mavia

by • June 20, 2016

I had just finished teaching a fifteen-week class that centered largely on artistic process. Every Monday morning we gathered to learn or unlearn something. From fashion...