SYNOPSIS. In which the author gives you a list of eight things he considers art. On the contradiction inherent in a list of eight things that isn’t really eight things. On the terror of List Item #8. Where the “Good Enough” makes its first appearance. Where the Sublime joins us for brunch.
HERE IS A LIST OF THINGS I WILL BE “ENGAGING” AS ART ON THIS WEBSITE.
- PAINTING & DRAWING. Artworks that are made by applying liquid pigment to solid/bendy substrates. What painters make. Also what children make. Includes illustrators/illustration and draughtsmen/drawings.
- SCULPTURE. Artworks carved, stacked, or beaten out of physical objects that take up space.
- FICTION. Long or short narratives that tell a story well or poorly. Includes non-fiction whether you like it or not.
- TELEVISION SHOWS. Long and short form collaborative efforts that utilize a dozen media to tell a story. Many of these are the New Novel (sorry Robbe-Grillet), and I want to explore that.
- MOVIES AND FILMS. Like television, but closer in spirit to short stories and novellas than to novels.
- MUSIC. I don’t have any apparatus for talking about music. Help me out here. Can anyone really talk about music without talking about the composer/performer/feelings? Do we ever really talk about the music?
- ARCHITECTURE. I have a very strange apparatus for talking about buildings and spaces. I’m going to use it because I can.
- EVERYTHING ELSE. This includes, um, everything.
TWO WORDS I WILL USE AS ONE WORD A LOT ON THIS WEBSITE:
GOOD ENOUGH. In my artistic self-examinations, I began to castigate my works (and others’) rightly or wrongly as “good enough.”
The Good Enough is what I call art that people release which didn’t go far enough. It is closely related to my belief that Ideas are so common that they don’t deserve the uppercase “I” that I just typed them with. More on this later because I can’t/won’t shut up about it.
The Good Enough is what I call art that people release which didn’t go far enough. It is closely related to my belief that Ideas are so common that they don’t deserve the uppercase “I” that I just typed them with. More on this later because I can’t/won’t shut up about it.
ONE THING I’M REALLY LOOKING FOR.
THE SUBLIME. Not sure this exists anymore, but I’m looking for it. I’ve written a hundred thousand words on the sublime already and I’m no closer to any answer. That’s what makes it fun.
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