No.35
"what do we communicate?"
from George (10/22/2007)
Dear Rin,
I hope I am not writing too much.
Ideas come in bursts that belong to our conversation, other times are whole fields of
quiet.
We say ‘art is communication’.
And we ask ‘what are communicating?’.
An astronomer studies the stars. The equipment required costs millions of dollars and
there are many years of scientific education. But there I have said the key word
‘Science’.
Science is what makes her work important.
Artists also spend years, often a lifetime, of study.
What do we study?
Besides what is more obvious. Color, line, form, dark and light, design, composition etc.
There are the non objectives. Imagination, intuition, perception, spontaneity, will
movement, gesture…as well s feelings. Our ideas include primary human motivators so
that the question and the act are often one.
We do not ask, “What is the imagination?”, but rather we imagine. Later we ask “what
is it?” The imagination carries within itself the riddle.
Artists, like scientists, are people with questions but they go about their work with
different tools.
What do we communicate?
We communicate the human being.
The human being, as mysterious as the stars.
P.S. Rin, this is not an urgent letter. You must have many things on your mind. It is a
letter for anytime.
Love and Peace,
George