Steve can do a better job on the waterfall.

I prefer to run aground on the stormy seas of life.

“a river runs downhill and artists don’t”

Maybe some artists run aground occasionally.

Again, my apologies for jumping in so late. One beauty of this blog medium is the ability to maintain a thread over time.

David, you did me a great service by providing the river analogy. Thanks. My own thoughts on the matter have largely formed around that.

The river I grew up with flows variously. Some tributaries provided clean water while others pollution and one could encounter sewage or something more pristine, depending where one dipped one’s oar. The river also rises and falls, with the greatest changes occurring during flood stage. And the quality of life in the river depends, critically, upon all else that happens to it.

But a river runs downhill and artists don’t. I doubt if anybody on A&P would describe her or his adventure as a going-with-the-flow proposition. Makes me think that Steve or I should do a one-eighty with our waterfalls to better internalize our subject.

You are very correct when you made that observation.

http://www.patrickmimran.com/english/press/releases/Ardenne1.html

Certainly the trend at the University (such a conservative institution) is to admit students as Artists without being Genre specific. Curriculums are beginning to also reflect this change, though (too!) slowly.

Finally there is recognition that Skills rather easily overlap between Mediums for the hard-working, critically-thinking student-artist. Resistence has come mostly from resentful Old Types who have felt Trodden Upon and fear their loss of Teaching Assistants.

Your last comment really struck me. My dream is to have an exhibit where Jer’s photographs, my paintings, and my textiles work are all presented, preferably in a cornucopic fashion rather than as precious entities. Maybe it is just the abundance of the season, but fruits spilling over the edges and around all the walls and onto the ceiling seem good to me right now.

Now all I have to do is find a venue — and a curator…..