Does a sculptor chip away
To uncover the image within?
Or is structure created
As marble is shaped?
The age old question:
Does Science discover Truth or create it?
Is beauty innate, or in the eye of the beholder?
(And would a rose by any other name really smell as sweet?)
How do blind people perceive beauty?
How does the person that has lost their smell (as happens in dementia and the aged) perceive the rose?
As a creator, how do you listen to the materiality of what you are working with?
I often start to crochet, not knowing what it will be then I ‘repent’, turn and frog it all. Starting again with a better idea of how the material will behave with the needle and stitch. I start with the material and listen.
Sensing with our inner eye/ear/nose?
I spend a long time just looking at my yarn, touching it, squishing it. Actually knitting is almost an afterthought …
“… how do you listen to the materiality of what you are working with?”
This is a great and provocative question …. and what is the materiality? Thinking (as I often do): music.
Kevin
I am now wondering about synaesthesia …
I think notes are the materiality of music….. the instrument chosen plus the skill of hands, breathe and muscles, must somehow agree to produce the music.