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Emissary's Guide To Worlding
The basis of our humanness is in our ability to create things. Our art—in the broadest sense—is whatever we make visible in the world. Each of us has to choose the scale at which we want to be artists of our own lives. It may be your family or your job or your neighborhood.
Amy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
The most ambitious art is the art of worlding
Learning about it helped me solve a puzzle:
On the inside, I feel like an introverted artist. But on the outside, I'm constantly creating social containers: residencies, classes, writing groups, etc.
The realization hit the... See more
Worlding is the art of devising a World: by choosing its dysfunctional present, maintaining its habitable past, aiming at its transformative future, and ultimately, letting it outlive your authorial control.
Ian Cheng • Worlding Raga: 2 – What is a World?
A World is a reality you can believe in: one that promises to bring about habitable structure from the potential of chaos, and aim toward a future transformative enough to metabolize the pain and pleasure of its dysfunction.