Christine Wong Yap, Positive Sign #34 (A Museum of the Life of the Family), 2011; glitter and neon pen on gridded vellum; 8.5 × 11 in./21.5 × 28 cm

Christine Wong Yap, Positive Sign #35 (Direction of Synthetic Description), 2011; glitter pen on gridded vellum; 8.5 × 11 in./21.5 × 28 cm

Christine Wong Yap, Positive Sign #36 (The Conceptual Synesthesia of Metaphorical Thinking), 2011; glitter pen on gridded vellum; 8.5 × 11 in./21.5 × 28 cm

After posting Positive Signs #1–33 last year, I completed drawings #34–60. To archive the entire series to Open Space, I’ll post the remaining drawings every other Tuesday through September.

Positive Signs is a series of interpretive diagrams, quotes, and speculations on creativity, optimism, with brief forays into the nature of space, stuff, experience, and cognition. Positive Signs #34–60 include looks at flow, hope, subjective well-being, passion, and aesthetic experience.

References:

With thanks to the following authors.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper & Row, 1990. [WorldCat.org listing]

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, and Rick Emery Robinson. The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter. Malibu, Calif: J. P. Getty Museum, 1990. [Getty catalog (PDF)] [WorldCat.org listing]

Geary, James. I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World. New York: HarperCollins, 2011. [WorldCat.org listing]

Keltner, Dacher. Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2009. [WorldCat.org listing]

Additional thanks to the International Positive Psychology Association and to the Jerome Foundation. 

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