Art practice
Art is about the maker.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
It’s tempting to think of art as outside of our practical needs: art does not hold up walls or keep us warm; it derives its value from our perceptions of it. It exists to prove we are capable of appreciating things beyond their practicality. We can see again how it is directly opposed to the inherent efficiency of money: if art were so crass as to
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when the actors don't hate the director…
youtube.comOnce you get a nudge to make something, it's not your job to control it but to be a midwife for it.
Maria Bowler • Making Time
Just as often the blockage is about the outcome: Will this be sufficient? Will my boss like it? Will it earn me a paycheck? Those questions keep us inside of ourselves.
But intention shifts your gaze. Your intention helps you slip past the how, past the bad infinity of the marketplace, past the boss, past the habitual self-consciousness that blocks
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