I think it is important to see things from different perspectives instead of making assumptions based on only one of them. That said, I have a poor visual memory so thinking or imagining, more than seeing, may be what it is really about. I have no idea why I picked sumo characters to illustrate the point. David Lynch, the artist and film director, believed that ideas or concepts float in the air for anyone to pull down. If one is open and wanting, one may receive them. They may come in fragments, possibly to become consolidated and embodied in a work of art. A weird and wonderful process, I would say, whether or not one is attracted to the product.
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A Colorless World?When I was a college student I took a summer class on the works of Herman Melville at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. I had to write a paper on one of Melville's works. The title of my essay, which is all I remember of it, was "Double Look + Twice Think = Horror: Melville's World View a...
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