Art school was where I learned that success was a trap. How limited my teachers were. Experts. Hemmed in by reduction. It would take thirty-five years for this to sink in. Not surprising if you consider the trajectory of the intervening decades, beginning with the height of their positions at the time. The accumulated authorityContinueContinue reading “The Space We Need”
Tag Archives: Cause & Effect
An Exploration, navigating without a map.
I keep returning to the lessons of futility. We are admonished to, “Try harder!”in the face of that which we cannot change, leaving us spinning our wheels…. It has to do with cause & effect…. But this is only part of what’s going on. If we participate in the creation of what-is. And, if weContinueContinue reading “An Exploration, navigating without a map.”
Consuming Community, Consuming Our Selves…
There come times when what asks to be done is for there to be silence. This can seem harder to accept than many other demands the moment makes on us. We have momentum. We consider our habits valuable. We expect and we expect others do too. Expect a certain “output.” This gets tricky when theContinueContinue reading “Consuming Community, Consuming Our Selves…”
Uncertainty and Cause & Effect
There’s something tickling out there at the confluence of our refusal to accept uncertainty and our belief in cause & effect. Even here, as I ponder these two concepts, I’m falling into the expectation that relation equals cause. I was about to say that we refuse uncertainty – vehemently, violently, with suicidal insistence – becauseContinueContinue reading “Uncertainty and Cause & Effect”
Horizons of Significance 