Here is a little story about trusting your own taste. Six years ago I saw this painting hanging in the back hallway of a local coffee shop and fell in love with it. It was like the painter had externalized everything I believe about the relationship between art and science. https://t.co/8hZb5yPd3q
“Why did I love that essay and not this one? What about that painting made me stop and stare?
Someone’s sense of taste also involves recognizing the gap between what they have made and what they intended to make.
To train our own taste, we must become cooks who aren’t scared to make food that may end up tasting terrible. To live in ‘the gap’ as Ira
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He would subsequently reflect on this encounter: “The brochure advised me that it was a haystack. I had no idea what that was. This non-recognition was excruciatingly distressing for me. The painter, in my opinion, had no right to depict incoherently. I had a distinct impression that the painting’s subject was absent. And I was surprised and
... See moreart as an experience for learning; the act of art-making is an act of learning. you are making, essentially, space for curioristy, which is what drives one to learn and grow in knowledge. also, i think engaging in the act helps you undertsand parts of yourself and the art you are crafting. surrendering to the curious spirit can guide you to what
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