The Idea of It

Many times the idea of something is more important than the something itself. This might well be the crux of art. Art itself is not a painting, a sculpture, a dance or thousands of orange gates and flags spread through out a major metropolitan city. It is the intangible that is the art, the something that is thought of or experienced.
That, however, is not always useful or convenient. I for one like pictures and books; I like well crafted objects and whimsical themes. I can live with that and don't (always) need something to uproot my belief system to value it or even just call it "good". This does not mean I do not want to do a little mindful or heartfelt work to look at and view sub-art. I like the seemingly earnest work one can find. Looking at people sketch books, doodles and ephemera is often what I need to be seeing at any given moment. It is okay to have fun. It is okay just to see where something goes. There is no wrong thing to do.
I could say a bunch of stuff to contradict what I just said. I do though think that a human scale is a reasonable way to live in the art/creative world. Big numbers and grand gestures are not an option for most of us. We can think about it and dream to no end. At the end of the day I still like to see a window full of paper turkeys the size and shape of a human hand. If it just so happens that the hand(s) in question do not belong to 6 year olds but to 46 year olds then so be it.

This post go away from me a bit. It was supposed to be about series and the expressiveness of partial restriction. It wasn't.
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