Patterns
LifeAsArt
Situation: What seems to matter in life is how we feel. We feel ourselves in the space/time continuum, we have a visceral,
non-rational connection directly with the universe. How we feel is perceived in terms of "quality" of life. [Definition needed.]
Problem: How can improve the way we “feel,” create quality in our lives, be happy?
Factors:
- Indifference is the enemy of quality. It’s easy to produce garbage, it’s harder to make art.
- One person’s art is another person’s garbage. [One person's quality is another person's quantity.]
- Some art is not intended to give pleasure. [Pathos, tragedy.]
- It’s all very subjective.
- “There is no apperception so blind as the non-sensuous apperception of feelings.” (Otto Baensch, Kunst und Gefuhl, Logos, II, 1923, p. 14.) Feelings are nonetheless real.
- “The serious artist is the only person able to encounter technology with impunity...” (McLuhan, Understanding Media, p. 33.)
Solution: Whenever possible make art out of every facet of living: cooking, building, dressing, working, thinking, writing, programming, playing, singing, expressing joy, and sorrow… HOW to do this is more problematic--remember, feeling is not necessarily rational. So what makes art art?
[See Significant Form, The Nature of Art, Quality Without a Name, Turkish Crafts, Extreme Programming Master, Media/Technology.]