Re: "I sense that in the long run there is a greater value for humanity in empowering folks to make and create than there is in teaching them the canon, the great works and the masterpieces."

[joseph berg]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:29 AM, William Conger <w-con...@sbcglobal.net>wrote:


> I want to know why we -- as humans -- always perceive any sense data as
> explainable, as representative of something just beyond the border of
> consciousness, as it were.  Does consciousness create itself by continually
> engulfing what occurs as the explainable?  In visual art are we compelled
> to
> explain any imagery as representative of something else? And is this also
> true
> of the other senses, considered alone or together?


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... but are felt in the heart.

Helen Keller