I'm not really sure how to tell you about what you're about to read, other than it's an idea that I tried to express using words. I'm a literature girl, so think of this as a literature thing. That's why there's no capital letters.
art is pebbles on the beach imagine there is a sparkling shore and you have an open day to spend there. just you and the water washing up at intervals beside you. blue sky above, blue water at your feet and beyond the horizon. it fills your senses and makes you understand what infinity means. it’s a pulse. here you are, and you have to do something, although all you want to do is stare out at infinity and listen to it roar. but you have to do something, and naturally your eyes begin to search the ground for treasures. eventually you’re crouching at the edge of the pulse that echoes forever, picking up any small specimen that catches your attention. you lift it to your face, turn it over. finger its crevaces. maybe you smell it, taste it. until it feels like part of you, like the attention you gave it leaves a certain energy with it. you judge that it is good and place it in your pouch. at the end of this day, you spread all the pieces out and organize your collection. you wonder if the best one might sell at the gift shop.
this territory is moderated
You move from the ephemeral experience of feeling present, to the must that compels us to fulfill a purpose, to the value of reconciling ourselves with the limitations of physical materials, and finally to the pragmatism of functioning in an economy.
Books for your reading list that might speak to the middle two experiences: The War or Art by Steven Pressfield Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford
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oooh yes, that was gorgeous. I have read War of Art, but the other you mentioned is new to me, I will be checking that out. Thanks!!
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673 sats \ 1 reply \ @Entrep 21 Jan
One heck of an analogy for art, so deep that it resonates to the great poets of old
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oh man, thanks I'm glad something got through
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 21 Jan
you wonder if the best one might sell at the gift shop.
hmmm, but I think the best art is not meant for sale? and it's quite sad that so many " artists" making art just to sell these days, then the direction is thinking - what should I create to sell better? But that's such a wrong approach because everybody would think the same, and then you end up with so much soulless art in this modern time.
And not just art, the same in writings or any creations.
For me, I think art should uniquely express yourself, connecting to your own stories and experiences. Or live your life like an art, then it's easier to make ART.
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yeah it's true. I have never sold any art. I liked leaving it with that sentence because after you consider selling it, your relationship to what you make completely changes. and it's not pebbles on the beach anymore. but for me, yeah I don't sell anything. the book I wrote is a pdf on my website.
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Speaking as one who comes from a place with lots of pebble beaches, I think you get it right.
I have this thing where I'm staring at the pebbles so hard, sifting through them, folding them back and forth with my hand, it becomes all-absorbing.
You know you have other things to do, but the seeking of the treasure, the hunting for the thing you don't even know what it looks like but it might be there captures you like some errant process taking up all the compute.
Maybe it's that there are so many possibilities, so many pebbles, maybe it's that any one of them could be real treasure, it ends up being a thing that takes over.
It's a good analogy. Hadn't connected the dots before. Thank you.
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I was hoping someone could relate to this, that's super cool
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70 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 21 Jan
"cause we are living in a material world and I am a literature girl"
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that could be a sticker
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"cause we are living in a material world whirl and I am a literature girl"
This would even rhyme. But I think there isn't much more to it lol mhhh 🤔
60 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 21 Jan
Now I feel bad that I haven't read everything from you already.
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that's nice of you to say!
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this is fantastic, made me think about an experience i had in Kauai
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could you say more about Kauai? what's that place like?
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It’s very dream-like: relatively less-developed island in Hawaii with incredible beaches, jungles, coral reefs in the shallows — everything you might expect!
People take their time there. Not rushing around for any particular reason.
The farmers markets are the main attraction IMO, so many things I’d never even seen before, and the best versions of what I was familiar with. Magical soil.
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I like what you wrote. If I was king of your words I would lay them out longer instead of a big paragraph. Just a layout thing. Your words are very good and I suggest this only because you are using lower case so I think you are stylizing the text as well.
I try to make the word setting just as important as the structure of ideas.
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I think you may be right! Some stylistic form could help this, I hadn't been looking at it like a poem yet, but it'll be fun to play with. thanks!
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With the web type-setting has kind of left the building. I think of data, presentation and type-setting. We want flowability with text due to device difference but we also want to have visual space, stops, pauses and goes.
Ancient writing is fascinating, regarding presentation. Writing is relatively new. Before writing we had symbols, oral traditions and the elements of nature teaching us. Like the beach pebbles, the sky at night had stars, planets, solar and lunar movements, and the Earth's rotation, tidal movements and wind.
The constellations are found in cave paintings. What's really mind blowing is the cave paintings of constellations are exactly oriented in the cave as if the sky was visible through the cave ceiling! Ancient people were by no means stupid. We still have those archetypical images embedded in our psyche. We still struggle to get the word out.
The advantage of the master of letters is that he can paint based on assumption, ignorance, luck and practice. He draws on two important principals. The feminine that the story comes from. The masculine that carries the story. The feminine that receives the story. The masculine that acts upon the story. Yin and Yang flow as breath, icons, receptions and insight.
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101 sats \ 1 reply \ @Athena 15 May
Art is an OASIS in the desert. Imagine there's one thirsty soul wandering in the hot. The OASIS gives him what he wants and he settles there forever.
Thank you so much for the nice post about ART. Here's a literature girl to another.
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let's go lit girlsss
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @antic 21 Jan
Love the ending. I find that when I draw it’s maybe 50% from me and 50% discovering what can come of my attempt to create something. I think that’s what’s fun about learning new things, that discovery phase, “oh, that’s how it works!”
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Sometimes it's best to keep your best stone and sell the average one
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Why do you have to do something
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maybe art isn't art after it's sold because it is a gift
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Beautiful. What is the connection between being a literature thing and no capitals. I am just curious.
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uhh I guess just that it is a creative choice and not a grammatically correct choice
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Grammar is overrated.
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haha in some ways yeah, true
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