ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an exploration of creative situated action in a traditional artistic craft, namely, Romanian Easter egg decoration, focusing both on activity stages and their microgenetic characteristics. It demonstrates that there is great value in focusing on the activity of Easter egg making for deepening our understanding of microlevel processes of creation. Other barriers faced by those interested in folk art are of a methodological nature. Little-c and mini-c creativity are notoriously difficult to capture and analyze, and this partially explains why creativity researchers often found refuge in the study of eminent creative products. Furthermore, to incorporate this microgenetic aspect of craftwork, one would have to operate with a slightly different definition of creativity. The subcam is especially relevant to folk art, where the artisan tends to work on small objects held relatively close to the eyes and is more at ease with showing than with describing processes involved in the craft.
