creativity and curation
OK, I MESSED UP.
youtube.comMany people fear mistakes and errors, leading to procrastination and perfectionism among other things. Hank Green’s story of errors on top of errors is worth bearing in mind. Green is prolific in presenting, writing, creating, and so on. When mistakes happen, it’s usually okay even when it’s not okay, and there can still be a great deal of success possible despite getting things wrong.
The ‘free line’ was a thread, a thin rope thrown to me from the depths of the living world. It appeared very early on, when I was living in a farmhouse in Italy; a doodle that came from nowhere. It held everything, though I didn’t know it at the time.
The unseen path
Tamsin Haggis (Art Pilgrim)
We don’t always see the beginning at the start.
It turned out that it wasn’t about ‘knowing what to do’2, but something else, something intrinsically unnameable, fundamentally untrackable. I knew that I hadn’t made the shift happen, other than by showing up, day after day, and trying to open to the whole weird mess of feeling and desire, experience, instinct and memory.
How long does an idea take to birth?
Creativity just happens, even when meticulously planned and executed. Letting go of the process is sometimes the best way to control the situation.
India assaulted me with beauty, which had been banned from my studies and experiences of contemporary European and American art. The whole culture seemed to revel in joyous engagement with every possible form of aesthetic experience; colour and shape, sound, texture, smell - a kaleidoscopic attack of atmosphere and sensation. Brilliantly coloured s... See more
Why Indian art?
Tamsin Haggis (Art Pilgrim)
Anatomy Of The Artist Brain
youtube.comJacob Collier Full Masterclass - Mexico City, 11th April 2024
youtube.com“I know about the forces on my terms. The best I can do is just to say this is the best painting I can imagine that is making this song shine, and I discover how it feels as I'm painting it. And that's the thing that will eventually transmit. But it's kind of outside my control—I can't necessarily design what I want to say or what I like. I have to just let it come out and then we all learn what it was like.”
Beth Spencer’s original “Created with Human Intelligence” badge.
she doesn’t identify as firmly anti-AI and can’t say artificial intelligence will never make its way into her artwork. AI-generated images as they currently stand, however, don’t impress her.
“They all kind of look greasy to me, like they’ve been dipped in oil,” she said. “People will get tired of seeing shiny images.”
“They all kind of look greasy to me, like they’ve been dipped in oil,” she said. “People will get tired of seeing shiny images.”
Leslie Katz • ‘Human Intelligence’ Art Movement Takes Defiant Stand Against AI
Beth Spencer talking about the “Created with Human Intelligence” project.
“It’s not saying AI should be banned,” Spencer clarified of the initiative. “It’s more pro-human than anti-tech.”
Leslie Katz • ‘Human Intelligence’ Art Movement Takes Defiant Stand Against AI
Beth Spencer talking about the “Created with Human Intelligence” project.