Simplicity I
It's one of the painful paradoxes of the creative process that you have to be ready to throw away what's most important to you. You have to not care (about failure) to convey the confidence that lets you communicate in a convincing way.I've also found that a lot of good things happen in the middle of doing something else, when intent and caution are not "in the way."
And that's what this picture is: something that happened while I was trying to do something else.
It's a cliché in other ways too: a figure on ground, a mystery material in a well lit space. It's so simple it's nearly nothing. That's probably why I like it.
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What is interesting about your descriptions of your creative process is that there is an underlying sense of struggle. I actually think of the word “struggle” as I read your posts. I mean that in a good way. I get the same sense when I read Wittgenstein, like the guy was struggling or grappling with every little phenomenon he observed. It goes beyond a sense of curiosity or wonder; it’s a struggle, as if life was challenging you to a duel. I think it’s a great way to live.
It's a little embarrassing for me to follow up on a comment as intelligent as the previous one - but all the same, I shall tell you I really liked that little "figure in a micro-landscape" very much. Is it a portrait-study of one of those polystyrene shapes (sorry, I know Americans use a different word for the stuff, but I can't remember it) used in packaging?
Thanks Dyske. I try. And Anna, Dyske put the idea so well that I have a hard time following him too (see dyske.com if you haven't... he has the mental energy of at least 10 earthlings).
So I'll just say that I think that's what makes art, and the experience of life, deeper: the ability to retain your sense of wonder while you try to figure out what you're doing.
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