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
Visual art? As this thought occurred to me, a most peculiar sensation swept through my body. It felt as though my cells had suddenly become buoyant. For a dizzy moment, I almost believed that I was rising up into the air. A panorama of memories rushed through my brain: the thousands of hours I’d spent drawing as an art-obsessed child and adolescent
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