For Feb 11 WATCH this: Ways of Seeing

Click here for link ------->Ways of Seeing, episode one, John Berger

Our Language Like an Ancient City


“Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses” (PI, 1953, no.18).

Wittgenstein, L. (1953) Philosophical Investigations. Oxford: Blackwell.

Capturing Ideas

The production of an artwork is processing knowledge in a physical fashion. And once you get involved in the physical production of ideas (outside your head), your are participating in divergent thinking - that is, things come into fruition, unbeknownst to you as you work on them tangibly. Be prepared for unannounced surprises and let the materials take you this way and that. Give yourself time, and enjoy the process.

In knowledge production I've heard say, there are no correct answers. There are only choices to be made, and to make a choice you have to take a chance.