Comments on: Art and solitude http://artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=art-and-solitude a multi-disciplinary dialog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:08:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Josh http://artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html/comment-page-1#comment-216285 Josh Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:10:11 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html#comment-216285 I feel the same way about playing and writing my own music on guitar. I view it as I am expressing myself to the world with my own voice in my playing. I try to write music that is exactly what I would want to listen to. And when I am alone I can really harness that peaceful quiet around me and fill it with the noise of how I see and perceive the world around me. I feel the same way about playing and writing my own music on guitar. I view it as I am expressing myself to the world with my own voice in my playing. I try to write music that is exactly what I would want to listen to. And when I am alone I can really harness that peaceful quiet around me and fill it with the noise of how I see and perceive the world around me.

]]> By: June http://artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html/comment-page-1#comment-8124 June Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:27:56 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html#comment-8124 When you are burning silk and you have long strewbly hair, it's hard to tell the difference in the smells. Luckily, I don't have to burn silk more than once every couple months. When you are burning silk and you have long strewbly hair, it’s hard to tell the difference in the smells. Luckily, I don’t have to burn silk more than once every couple months.

]]> By: Steve Durbin http://artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html/comment-page-1#comment-8084 Steve Durbin Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:07:53 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html#comment-8084 To have your hair on fire once is a misfortune, but to have it recur smacks of carelessness. To have your hair on fire once is a misfortune, but to have it recur smacks of carelessness.

]]> By: June http://artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html/comment-page-1#comment-8056 June Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:37:48 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html#comment-8056 When I paint, I fall into a zone that's hard to penetrate. It doesn't matter whose around or what's being said (aside from "Your hair is on fire), I am inside the work. This is true in pleine aire work, too, I find. I am often approached by people, but I have a kind of automatic response system that allows me to look polite, but keeps me from actually interacting or interrupting myself. When I'm stitching, however, I am acutely aware of everything and everybody. Not much of a zone there -- it's mostly process. The zone work is done prior to the execution. And I'm lucky to have a partner who understands the glazed look in the eye I turn to him. He generally disappears when he sees that I'm not hearing (except when my hair is on fire). I do need some solitude on a daily basis. And I often get it in the painting studio, which is outside the house. But my need for solitude is different from my immersion in the various artistic processes that I pursue. When I paint, I fall into a zone that’s hard to penetrate. It doesn’t matter whose around or what’s being said (aside from “Your hair is on fire), I am inside the work. This is true in pleine aire work, too, I find. I am often approached by people, but I have a kind of automatic response system that allows me to look polite, but keeps me from actually interacting or interrupting myself.

When I’m stitching, however, I am acutely aware of everything and everybody. Not much of a zone there — it’s mostly process. The zone work is done prior to the execution.

And I’m lucky to have a partner who understands the glazed look in the eye I turn to him. He generally disappears when he sees that I’m not hearing (except when my hair is on fire).

I do need some solitude on a daily basis. And I often get it in the painting studio, which is outside the house. But my need for solitude is different from my immersion in the various artistic processes that I pursue.

]]> By: Mark Illingworth http://artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html/comment-page-1#comment-8030 Mark Illingworth Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:10:25 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html#comment-8030 Yes for me the social interaction is helpful in contributing to what I do during solitary time (painting art) and vice versa; in that my solitary inward reflections and outward artistic process keep me balanced. I'd not be in good mental shape if I had too much of either. The idea of potters collaboratively doing their firing does sound fun though. Maybe I should get some artists together all painting to the same music.... Yes for me the social interaction is helpful in contributing to what I do during solitary time (painting art) and vice versa; in that my solitary inward reflections and outward artistic process keep me balanced. I’d not be in good mental shape if I had too much of either.

The idea of potters collaboratively doing their firing does sound fun though. Maybe I should get some artists together all painting to the same music….

]]> By: Steve Durbin http://artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html/comment-page-1#comment-8014 Steve Durbin Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:22:09 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html#comment-8014 I was talking to a potter the other day and learned about quite a different style of working. Because he requires long firings (five days or so) in wood-fired kilns, he gets together with several other potters doing similar work when they are at that stage. They then set up the kiln together and keep it going in a very collaborative way. How the kiln is handled influences, of course, all of their work. It sounds like they have a great time. I was talking to a potter the other day and learned about quite a different style of working. Because he requires long firings (five days or so) in wood-fired kilns, he gets together with several other potters doing similar work when they are at that stage. They then set up the kiln together and keep it going in a very collaborative way. How the kiln is handled influences, of course, all of their work. It sounds like they have a great time.

]]> By: Steve Durbin http://artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html/comment-page-1#comment-8013 Steve Durbin Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:15:24 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/03/art-and-solitude.html#comment-8013 Mark, That's interesting about the difference in approach between your two art forms. Maybe that solitary time painting is enough to satisfy the need many people have expressed. Mark,
That’s interesting about the difference in approach between your two art forms. Maybe that solitary time painting is enough to satisfy the need many people have expressed.

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