I had been thinking recently of Bradbury. In the same context.
I listened to fahren fight 4:51 after many many years and ruminations about our place in the world and presence and attention or what struck me the most that I hadn't noticed when I was young
It's fascinating, isn't it, how books "change" when we revisit them over our lifetimes? The best books, like F451, repay these revisits many times over. I'm glad I could help to provide this kind of experience for you with Bradbury.
Brilliant ! This follows yesterday's visit with a close friend - both of us mired in the question "why persist in our art ? Neither of us show, neither sell nor have we the desire to prostitute our art for validation from gatekeepers nor for monetary gain." Yet despite the absence of outside observers and the avoidance of "the arts community", I'm compelled to continue making images. This has been a quandary for much of my life....castigating myself for being a coward or feeling jealous and bitchy about those "successfully" marketing their identities - my ego feeling thwarted and denied the pumping-up of admirers clamouring to validate me as "a voice of our times". It sounds pathetic. My friend astonished me with an allegory...a question..."we ( humanity ) are like a herd of elephants stampeding over the planet - all trying to leave our marks and trampling the world....shouldn't we rather be tip-toeing ?"
Thank you for sharing this perspective. It is truly helpful for me regarding some of the areas where I often seem to become stuck.
I rewatched the full Bradbury interview. Kind of cool how, at about 16 minutes into it, he says something very similar (about the character being a medium in a seance with the author) to what Amanda wrote in her essay. Originally, it was just that initial portion I saw on instagram that made me think of her essay. Now it seems all the more relevant.
Enjoyed watching the full interview again. Thank you!
I had been thinking recently of Bradbury. In the same context.
I listened to fahren fight 4:51 after many many years and ruminations about our place in the world and presence and attention or what struck me the most that I hadn't noticed when I was young
It's fascinating, isn't it, how books "change" when we revisit them over our lifetimes? The best books, like F451, repay these revisits many times over. I'm glad I could help to provide this kind of experience for you with Bradbury.
Love the Bradbury interview! Thanks for sharing it.
Thank *you*, Dena, for your ongoing sharing of Peter's work and legacy.
Thanks for the mention of my post, Matt. I really enjoyed reading this. And yes, it is all kind of weird and fun. And amazing!
Thank you for the great reflections in that post, Amanda!
Brilliant ! This follows yesterday's visit with a close friend - both of us mired in the question "why persist in our art ? Neither of us show, neither sell nor have we the desire to prostitute our art for validation from gatekeepers nor for monetary gain." Yet despite the absence of outside observers and the avoidance of "the arts community", I'm compelled to continue making images. This has been a quandary for much of my life....castigating myself for being a coward or feeling jealous and bitchy about those "successfully" marketing their identities - my ego feeling thwarted and denied the pumping-up of admirers clamouring to validate me as "a voice of our times". It sounds pathetic. My friend astonished me with an allegory...a question..."we ( humanity ) are like a herd of elephants stampeding over the planet - all trying to leave our marks and trampling the world....shouldn't we rather be tip-toeing ?"
I love the elephant simile. Thanks, Richard. And I'm glad my post could link up in serendipitous resonance with your recent conversation.
Thank you for sharing this perspective. It is truly helpful for me regarding some of the areas where I often seem to become stuck.
I rewatched the full Bradbury interview. Kind of cool how, at about 16 minutes into it, he says something very similar (about the character being a medium in a seance with the author) to what Amanda wrote in her essay. Originally, it was just that initial portion I saw on instagram that made me think of her essay. Now it seems all the more relevant.
Enjoyed watching the full interview again. Thank you!