Divya Prabhakar
@divprabh
Divya Prabhakar
@divprabh
As is often the case, there’s a German word that perfectly encapsulate a major part of what makes a great design to me: leitmotif. Leitmotif is when a composer assigns a short melody, rhythm, or harmonic progression to a person, place, object, or concept in a piece of music, film, or theater. Every time you hear it, it connects you emotional with
... See morePalace of Wilderness, Ranbir Kaleka, 2018, Mixed media on Duratrans. Lightbox, 38.9 × 94 cm (15 3/10 × 37 in)
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Bani Abidi, The Reassuring Hand Gestures of Big Men, Small Men, All Men, 2021, Inkjet prints on Alu-dibond, suite of 69. Photos courtesy of Experimenter
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“Descension is an impressive sculpture that depicts water’s continuous swirling motion as it rushes down an 8m (26-ft) diameter vortex representing a powerful form that is sucked into the earth”
Descension, Anish Kapoor, 2014, Château de Versailles, 8m (26ft) 2015, photo: Fabrice Seixas & kamel mennour, Paris/London
We are the creators of our children’s childhood. Make it personal with your own family rituals. “A child with a strong sense of ‘we’ starts to develop a strong sense of ‘I.’ ” —Kim John Payne, Simplicity Parenting
But it’s not the image that you see,” Shan continues. “It’s the human emotion. It’s the feeling evoked in the audience.”
When I think about art and its relationship with generative AI, I find myself caught in a loop. If art is the human idea, then wouldn’t a human, typing a prompt into something like Midjourney, count as the human effort within the
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