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Life and creativity are inseparable.  To have a special word for creativity, for art, would make it small and separate.  The closest word in Tewa for a creative activity is “to make,” to be in the process of a making.  It is a matter of making things, anything, well.  It is not an outside, extra thing.  Again, the most essential goal is not the production of objects but the living of life.

In the traditional Pueblo world, harmony within one’s social and natural context is essential to the making of meaningful creations.  These creations cannot be just ornamental or decorative.  They are part of the spiritual experience of being in alignment with the po-wa-ha.  Things made by human hands flow through the soul of the maker and are an expression of that person’s soul and it’s relatedness to the cosmos.


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