I'll drink to that WC. Likewise, sculpture is the only song I have
known for over six decades.
mando
On Aug 6, 2008, at 6:51 PM, William Conger wrote:
Some years ago I gave a lecture on my work at the University of
Iowa and when I finished a student blurted "You're a romantic!" and
the audience twittered. I replied in the affirmative...dryly.
I can't give you mileposts for my "experience". I can't even
relate my experience the same way twice because, like everyone
else, I reinvent my experiences with each recollection. And any
experience is too complex to be set up as a mechanistic process.
Nevertheless, my comment was clear enough in suggesting that. a.,
my human brain has genetically and evolved preferences for
apprehending information and b., I happen to know a lot about art,
its history and practices, to say nothing of a decades long
acquaintance with the artist whose work I saw and wrote about in my
post. These two conditions help to make my "aesthetic" experience
unique and helpful to my basic preferences for newness.
WC
--- On Wed, 8/6/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: an aesthetic experience and science
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 6:11 PM
In a message dated 8/5/08 9:46:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
If there is an esthetic experience here, it is
something explained by the
patterns of neural activity in my brain together with
my keenness to the
practices of painting, a memory of similar art...and
most of all, my
constant
desire for more freedom of thought and experience --
of wanting to see the
other
side of the hill with every step.
It's a romantic line, William, but what you have in
mind with "explain" comes
across as so indeterminate, so disparately multiplex, it
may suit a fellow
poet, but not an earnest thinker who wants to follow your
thought.
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