Thursday, June 25, 2020

...it says by being, not by saying.

The best work neither shows nor tells: it says by being, not by saying.
M John Harrison

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Reasons to be cheerful

Productive anonymity—the ability to experiment without much at stake except your own process of discovery.
 

Privacy—particularly, the ability to experience artworks in a relatively private environment, even if in public spaces. 

 

Time—to think and to not think; to look at art; to waste on dead-end art projects that no one will ever see again and that your best friends may remember better than you will, because to them it was an event but to you it was just a step along a long road. 
Liberation from art that is front-loaded with conscious intentionality. 


Benign neglect—the ability to do things with just enough attention to make you feel like you are part of a world and can go forward, but not so much that your gesture becomes a trademark and a creative prison.

Mira Schor