an escape from emotion
Posted by Mark at May 5, 2005 11:30 PM
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion;"
T. S. Eliot
I remember painting as a form of exorcism, an image stuck in my mind, trying to get it out. Only when the image (the feel, the quality, the nuance, the idea) was made tangible in the world, on the canvas, then I could sleep soundly.
That's why craft is so important in painting. The body must be trained to the point that it does what has to be done, to perform the right motions, so the image can be exorcised from the mind, without the limitations of the hand, arm, body getting in the way.
In software it is the same (I believe in all art it is this way). The artist must know his craft and excel at it, so that the craft does not get in the way of the intention. The craft must enable the intention. Then the vision in the mind can be actualized in the world, and with that, escape is possible.
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