The Creative Malaise
I’ve been in a bit of a creative malaise recently. Wait, have I? I’m not even sure it’s true, though I feel a bit … […]
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It’s found anywhere, everywhere
“The sketch hunter has delightful days of drifting about among people, in and out of the city, going anywhere, everywhere, stopping as long as he […]
The eye trains itself to transmit many small delights
“I believe I am a stranger to humanity. I did not want just to paint people with their grimaces and gestures. What I really wanted […]
Inner and outer purpose have not merged
“Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the […]
Proto Abstraction in Photography
Proto Abstraction What I call ‘proto abstraction’ can, as the name implies, be considered a way-stage on the road to abstraction proper. It typically depicts […]
Urge to abstraction: order and regularity
The art historian, Wilhelm Worringer, wrote a dissertation in 1906, which became his famous Abstraction and Empathy. […] Worringer stated that modern aesthetics was based […]
The annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth
“The individual … no longer resists the annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth in the realization of truth, and so becomes ripe, at last, for […]
