Hi Jeremy:
You wrote:
Something which a wise tutor told me which seemed relevant. He said
(towards the end of my three years of study) " when you leave here
forget everything you've been taught... it'll do *you* no good". I know
when something dynamic has happened when I sculpt. Its unexpected
and I never feel responsible for what is in front of me. Its a peculiar
feeling and I've caught myself extolling the virtues of a piece of work
and suddenly realised how big headed it might seem to others. But its
just that feeling that *I* was not the creator, it just happened, like
finding something really beautiful in the arrangement of a pile of
randomly fallen leaves.
Beautifully expressed. I once had a watercolor teacher who said the
reason he kept painting through many disappointments was “to be
there when it happens.”
We students all knew what he meant.
“They never had to say in any conceptual way what kind of object quality
is but they understood that when you see it you know it. Quality is real
even though it cannot be defined.” (Pirsig SODV paper)
I just returned from a trip to NY city where I went to concert by the New
York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center featuring Yefim Bronfman playing
Beethovan’s Third Piano Concerto and also saw the Vermeer exhibit at
the Met Museum. Two events of pure Quality. All I can say is to borrow
Pirsig’s words:
“What (the trip) did was weaken for a moment your existing static
patterns in such a way that the Dynamic Quality all around you shone
through.”
Like you Jeremy, I live for such rare, shining moments. I guess we all
do.
Platt
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