“Cluedo = Clue + Ludo. Ludo is a classic British game – a simplified game of India. Ludo is not played in the U.S. Instead, Americans play Parcheesi. But ‘Cluecheesi’ doesn’t quite work. So we just stuck with ‘Clue’.” via bit.ly/41IHTTS
To Open Eyes
“We do not always create ‘works of art,’ but rather experiments; it is not our ambition to fill museums: we are gathering experience.”
Josef Albers, Bauhaus Fundaments (Leap Before You Look p. 33)
“[Josef Alber’s] thought of teaching art as analogous to teaching a language, hence the students had to begin with the building blocks of aesthetics; he called drawing a ‘graphic language’ that was both a ‘visual and manual act.’ “
“Alber’s color course… proved that the experience of color was ultimately fungible.”
For example: Cutting up and collating bits of paper to see how they change in relationship to each other.
Helen Molesworth, Leap Before You Look (p. 34)
“The relativity of our experience of color has philosophical and ethical implications, as well. If our experience of a piece of colored paper can change so demonstrably, then what side footing do we have when we appeal to ‘common-sense’ truths like color?”
“forms are subject to perception - what Albers calls experience.”
“The task of training students to see, "to open eyes," as Albers often said, was to facilitate their critical awareness of the made qualities of the world around them, to make them self-aware of their own experiences to better prepare them for the democratic work of making considered choices.”
“Rather Albers insisted on the relativity of color, the perceptual instability of human experience, and the need for a constant performance or testing of innumerable variables.”
Helen Molesworth, Leap Before You Look (p. 41)
John Rice
“…there is something of the artist in everyone and the development of this talent, however small, carrying with it a severe discipline of its own, results in the students becoming more sensitive to order in the world and within himself than he can ever be through intellectual effort alone.”
John Rice, Black Mountain College Bulliten, 1935
via Look Before You Leap (p. 34)
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention.”
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act
Epigraph
The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
Robert Henri
Epigraph from
Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act
A Fresh Perspective
Yesterday I saw Ellen Gillett’s call for the photograph’s of artist’s ceilings. I love how a simple prompt or collaboration can give you a whole new way of seeing a familiar surrounding.
Time & Space
“Time and space are not awarded to us, we must carve them out and protect them.“
Marlee Grace, Monday Monday
Play
AJ = Alan Jacobs (source)
Chronic Illness & Art
“The functioning of our bodies affects what is possible for each of us in physical and temporal spaces. During active illness, the limitation that comes from the mismatch between the rest of the world and the universe of sickness increases. You think and plan around the ways you don’t fit into the world.”
“Artists often see possibility and opportunity where others may not, so our role is to lead others into new ideas or ways of doing things.”
Jocelyn Mathewes
Dappled Shadows
We went for a walk this morning. It’s still quite warm, but the leaves have just started to drop. This little patch of dappled light was magic. 🍂💫