“To move the body with no direction is to feel like a fleck of ash drifting through the sky after a fireworks show. To move the body as if it is the fleck of ash engages embodied imagination.”
“How does one find that beautiful balance between the discomfort in beginning and the love for the working?”
Love the metaphors in this piece. And that final question.
Also knowing that this newsletter is a “product” of such a process, but also that the process itself that you’re sharing. It makes me wonder tangentially about the opening paragraph:
“When we invite others to view our art, what they experience is the illumination of a process that they’ll never know, not the way the artist knows the process. The artist is in relationship with the process. The viewer is in relationship with the art.”
Definitely questions for another essay, but : what is lost in a world where only the products matter and are valuable? What’s the cost? And what’s possible / could be gained through bringing the audience into the process?
Just this small window into your process provides me personally insight and also inspiration. Thank you for that 🙏
When I left my full time job security I wasted a lot of time. Your article would have helped. Here is a link to a great animation by Richard Condie who also did the fantastic Big Snit. Getting Started
“To move the body with no direction is to feel like a fleck of ash drifting through the sky after a fireworks show. To move the body as if it is the fleck of ash engages embodied imagination.”
“How does one find that beautiful balance between the discomfort in beginning and the love for the working?”
Love the metaphors in this piece. And that final question.
Also knowing that this newsletter is a “product” of such a process, but also that the process itself that you’re sharing. It makes me wonder tangentially about the opening paragraph:
“When we invite others to view our art, what they experience is the illumination of a process that they’ll never know, not the way the artist knows the process. The artist is in relationship with the process. The viewer is in relationship with the art.”
Definitely questions for another essay, but : what is lost in a world where only the products matter and are valuable? What’s the cost? And what’s possible / could be gained through bringing the audience into the process?
Just this small window into your process provides me personally insight and also inspiration. Thank you for that 🙏
When I left my full time job security I wasted a lot of time. Your article would have helped. Here is a link to a great animation by Richard Condie who also did the fantastic Big Snit. Getting Started
https://www.nfb.ca/film/getting_started/