Art is interactive by nature -- what a person gets out of a piece of art is heavily dependent on what they bring to it. A piece of artwork is like a mirror; the art stays the same, but everyone who looks at it sees something different.
"It looks almost like a dragon, flying over a big black mountain, or maybe it's meant to be a city. The red and yellow could be a forest fire. I don't know about the green and blue. They don't go."
Well, I certainly know where my brain went -- straight to Smaug attacking Laketown! But if T-Earth doesn't have that story, or Shiv hasn't heard about it, he wouldn't recognize that.
This is why we can't have nice things, said the acid voice in the back of his mind.
Oh FFS. Those teachers weren't artists, and didn't hang out with artists. There might be such a thing as an artist with a tidy studio, but I have yet to encounter one! Oh sure, you have to pick up and sort out occasionally just so that stuff doesn't either get lost or pile up in your work area until you don't have space to work, but it always just gets messy again.
And yes, when you're doing artwork of any sort, protecting the workspace from overflow mess is a good idea. But you won't figure that out until the first time you forget. :-)
"You know, when the drain doesn't work so you have to bail the dishwater into a bucket and dump it down the toilet?" Shiv explained.
Important background information! Shiv has lived in at least one home where there was no money for household maintenance, and so when the sink clogged up it stayed that way for a long time. Also, Graham has obviously never had that experience or known anyone who did (or who talked about it, at least), so he failed to recognize what Shiv was saying.
Shit, don't hit me, I'm sorry I ever brought it up!
Yep, that's the abused-child reflex, all right. But also, the idea that "classes are for kids" and that becoming a grownup means you never have to sit in a classroom again is fairly common across all social strata.
"There's a saying," Dr. G replied. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Yes. See also, "Engineering is a collection of successful recipes. Science is a bunch of kids playing in the kitchen and making a mess." - Dr. Jordin Kare
"We could ... maybe do this again some time?" Shiv said.
no subject
"It looks almost like a dragon,
flying over a big black mountain, or maybe
it's meant to be a city. The red and yellow
could be a forest fire. I don't know about
the green and blue. They don't go."
Well, I certainly know where my brain went -- straight to Smaug attacking Laketown! But if T-Earth doesn't have that story, or Shiv hasn't heard about it, he wouldn't recognize that.
This is why we can't have nice things,
said the acid voice in the back of his mind.
Oh FFS. Those teachers weren't artists, and didn't hang out with artists. There might be such a thing as an artist with a tidy studio, but I have yet to encounter one! Oh sure, you have to pick up and sort out occasionally just so that stuff doesn't either get lost or pile up in your work area until you don't have space to work, but it always just gets messy again.
And yes, when you're doing artwork of any sort, protecting the workspace from overflow mess is a good idea. But you won't figure that out until the first time you forget. :-)
"You know, when the drain doesn't work
so you have to bail the dishwater into a bucket
and dump it down the toilet?" Shiv explained.
Important background information! Shiv has lived in at least one home where there was no money for household maintenance, and so when the sink clogged up it stayed that way for a long time. Also, Graham has obviously never had that experience or known anyone who did (or who talked about it, at least), so he failed to recognize what Shiv was saying.
Shit, don't hit me, I'm sorry
I ever brought it up!
Yep, that's the abused-child reflex, all right. But also, the idea that "classes are for kids" and that becoming a grownup means you never have to sit in a classroom again is fairly common across all social strata.
"There's a saying," Dr. G replied.
"Creativity is allowing yourself
to make mistakes. Art is
knowing which ones to keep."
Yes. See also, "Engineering is a collection of successful recipes. Science is a bunch of kids playing in the kitchen and making a mess." - Dr. Jordin Kare
"We could ... maybe do this
again some time?" Shiv said.
Breakthrough!