On Dec 6, 2013, at 6:50 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I love it when I find myself cooing about what an artist just did: "What > made her think of it?!"
I admire the skills and talents of those who do things I cannot do well, such as write fiction, sing and dance, etc. And by the same token, I admire good works of visual art, especially paintings and drawings, that are evidently well made and *that are unlike my own work.* They are paintings I could not paint because I don't (can't) begin to think pictorially in that way. "Begin," literally. They are made from a starting place I typically do not think of, a starting place of both conception and execution that I am not accustomed to. An important aspect of doing any is "getting through" to the end, to the other side, to the completion. Knowing--generally--where the end is at the beginning, and that suggests that when you encounter a painting or song or other creation that you cannot imagine creating yourself, you are looking at something that you do not know how to start. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
