Visual and musical arts, like those of a poetic or tactile nature, may direct perception in unexpected ways.
Before we take notice of weather reports we are fascinated by the way raindrops dance on hard surfaces, the ways they form wide patterns while disappearing in a sudden flash of liquid silver; only later do we first think of carrying an umbrella. With the acquisition of information and familiarity with the commonplace, it is easy to rely on the routine ways of seeing and being, hearing and thinking.
Easier still is to become distracted by the pressures of responsibility or the popular diversions, losing, along the way, the sense of the unexpected or unknown. But the beautiful and the marvelous are always to be found, sometimes in simple things and sometimes in complexity.
This is to explain nothing, but to take note, as always, of artistic ideas and intentions.
Before we take notice of weather reports we are fascinated by the way raindrops dance on hard surfaces, the ways they form wide patterns while disappearing in a sudden flash of liquid silver; only later do we first think of carrying an umbrella. With the acquisition of information and familiarity with the commonplace, it is easy to rely on the routine ways of seeing and being, hearing and thinking.
Easier still is to become distracted by the pressures of responsibility or the popular diversions, losing, along the way, the sense of the unexpected or unknown. But the beautiful and the marvelous are always to be found, sometimes in simple things and sometimes in complexity.
This is to explain nothing, but to take note, as always, of artistic ideas and intentions.
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