From:
Norman Watts <Norman_Watts@zzzzzzz>
Date:
Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:12:54 -0500
Subject:
what can be art
On Jan 18, 2005, at 10:41 AM, Bill Urmenyi wrote:
Quoted text begins.The only question after that is whether it is good bad or indifferent
and that is not absolute but is relative to the viewer and the time.
End of quote.
Bill,
I was more trying to get at this idea of questions and answers, rather
than the issue of good and bad. I give Clive serious consideration when
he writes and he seemed to express this idea of a question that could
be posed, and posed again. I was wondering what such questions and
answers might be. If I remember right, you (Clive) once told me that a
Henry Moore could tell us more about how a woman of that period saw
herself than any number of words could say (did I get that roughly
right?). Also, I know that you (Clive again) have looked at the passage
of humanity (getting a bit beaten up over time, but surviving and
triumphing anyway. Did I get that roughly right too)? So there seem to
be specific things in mind.
For me, for what little carving I get to do, its all about process. I
yearn to work large stone and be engaged in the process. I have no
statement (I doubt my earlier stated concerns about the Earth can be
expressed this way (better by a silver tongued devil like Bill Knight).
But before I bash myself for being too into process (not ends) I notice
that I am into process in most all else that I do; be it rock climbing
(its always about being there and touching, not number grades),
mountaineering (having my life for a brief moment be magnificant, not
about summits), or research (I do it for the daily fun, not to save
anything). But thats just me, not anyone else. If someone else with
much more experience tells me there is more to it in the grander scheme
than that then I will sit up and listen.
Norman Watts, Ph. D.
National Institutes of Health
50 South Drive, Rm. 1509
Bethesda, MD 20892-8025
Phone: (301) 402-3418
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