Or helping little hands to create funny legs,

If you’re cloud gazing on an Autumn day

Or playing a game with a ball and a hoop

This is Wonderment to me:

Transformation

Imagination in Motion

Hints of Puppetry

This post is my submission for week 10 of Wonderment. As Eventful Poet shared, this challenge is doing two things. In her words:

One, it’s shifting my perspective.  Guess what happens when you look for something wonder-ful each week?  Yep, you start noticing more and more sources of wonder.

Two, it creates a visual record of the year, 52 weeks of captured moments I’ll be able to look back on at the end of it.

What does Wonderment mean to you? Do you like to capture those moments?

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Tucked away
Rows of rusted parts
Stacked away
Fragments of yesteryear

Hanging high
Above the crowded curios
Several frames perched in tandem
Skeletons of stories past

Landscapes, abstracts
Memory’s signature
Once held
Within your wooden splints

But for now
You hang askew
Now – in this photo
The framed ones

Jasmin Tragas @wonderwebby for the Wonderment Creative Challenge
Photo taken at Montsalvat

This is my contribution to a new weekly creative challenge callled Wonderment. Harriet Wakelam and I were chatting on Twitter about how we were seeking a weekly creative challenge this year.  Something fun and inspiring, but not time consuming. Something easy enough to do on an iPhone.

And so, Wonderment was born. If you are interested in participating, just leave a comment with your Flickr ID and I’ll invite you. There is just one theme for the year: Wonderment “From illusion, to making a wish. Finding wonder and imagination in the everyday.” It’s up to you to submit a photo each week by Friday-ish (the last day of 2010 is on a Friday.)  At the end of the year you’ll have 52 photos to remind you of the things that made you wonder. You don’t need to write a poem. This one just sprung out at me from the image.

Happy imagining!

Looking through the eyes of imagination. What do you see?  Where does your picture start and end?

An image can be a moment, or a hint of moments to come. Things unseen can be just as important as the most obvious expression.

Beautiful images provoke us to dream and imagine the unseen.

I was just about to drop my 52 weeks project, but I think I just needed some fresh inspiration. Thanks Rosie for reminding me about simplicity, imagination and the reward of vibrant ideas combined with a little effort. Now all I have to do is dream up some new ideas of my own….

Once, not too long ago in the Enterprise people found themselves working ever so diligently and thought everything was just honky dory thank you very much. Yet they were completely oblivious to the terrible neglect their creative souls were facing. They had forgotten how to imagine, they had stopped practicing the power of insight and ideas were fast becoming stale.” ..read more

Image courtesy of Alice Bartlett

Expression resides in a new place. Communication is no longer about pushing out content, it resembles the interaction of a collected expression, thoughts and dreams; moments captured through a mesh of online activity spur further thought and imagination.

Welcome to the collective dimension; an opportunity to share, exchange and co-create. A place where you can express yourself, build upon your ideas and discover grander dreams

Image courtesy of The Paper Boat

A quick Tweetscan revealed some curious insights and quotes on imagination this week.

edallen33 People with imagination can’t imagine how there can be people with no imagination.

eve11 If I can create art out of energy (inspiration, imagination), why not breathe same impulse to materialize food, shelter, all conceivable?

fred_dumas “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~Albert Einstein

BPD The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought , reason, — over every idea. Latin Proverb

Glitchos The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

lola125 Live out of your imagination instead of your memory. Tie yourself to your limitless potential instead of your limiting past.

gradualdazzle There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. –Goethe

boobaby26 My imagination scares me sometimes…I think i’m just so tired that my brain is turning to other stations..some very weird stations

BassGhost “The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.” -Edgar Allan Poe

haniff_din Imagination is more important than knowledge…

ArcaneInfernal If I had an imaginary cat and ate it, would it taste like my imagination?

cessibaby I left work at 1 30 this afternoon because i needed to give my imagination space.

asuntruth The man who has no imagination has no wings. Muhammad Ali

shawnz Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor who said he “lacked imagination.”

Alanab Worry is the misuse of imagination.

garyd “Imagination is the weapon against boredom.” – The Wishfarmers Almanac

Imagination is what triggered my little ones to create a colourful piece of chalk art on our back fence! Why have a boring back fence when you can have this?!

How do you exercise your imagination in “the everyday”?

1. I love the illustrations! A conversation in a car between two people is now a picture that I can see and enjoy thanks to Isaac’s blog.

2. Great ideas don’t always begin with the arrival of a larger than life Sharkbus. Creativity occurs by simply changing your perspective, like adding feet onto a shark.

3. You don’t have to come up with a great idea by yourself. Collaborate, share your idea to see the potential.

4. Children have the best imaginations. They don’t try so hard to be clever.

5. It’s important to be silly, sometimes.