"I believe that the solutions to the global are local, and the solutions to the local must be playful; convivial if you will." Print that for my wall.
"Maturity might just be the ability to play with seriousness"
This is something that's always made me comfortable as an artist. Is actually one reason I've never really suffered the artist vs. client thing other artists complain about ("the client doesn't know what they want" "the client doesn't let me do what I know is right" etc). Dealing with a client is procedural, not playful. But you play up to the point that the client stops playing with you, and exactly at that point you shrug and just execute procedure. The more playful the client the better of course, but artists take it too personally when they stop playing. On the flip side, I'm lucky enough to have avoided that many procedural only, non-playful clients. This is largely because if there's no play available, I just tell 'em how to do it themselves. There's always a template, literally, that does just what they want.
This was a beautiful meditation infused with an awareness of time in so many ways, on the nature of man as a species, and as a family man in the current age, on the nature of our age relative to things like childlike play, the seasons, sense memory. A gentle reminder to sometimes get out of our own headspace and get into the water and splash around while we can.
"I believe that the solutions to the global are local, and the solutions to the local must be playful; convivial if you will." Print that for my wall.
"Maturity might just be the ability to play with seriousness"
This is something that's always made me comfortable as an artist. Is actually one reason I've never really suffered the artist vs. client thing other artists complain about ("the client doesn't know what they want" "the client doesn't let me do what I know is right" etc). Dealing with a client is procedural, not playful. But you play up to the point that the client stops playing with you, and exactly at that point you shrug and just execute procedure. The more playful the client the better of course, but artists take it too personally when they stop playing. On the flip side, I'm lucky enough to have avoided that many procedural only, non-playful clients. This is largely because if there's no play available, I just tell 'em how to do it themselves. There's always a template, literally, that does just what they want.
This was a beautiful meditation infused with an awareness of time in so many ways, on the nature of man as a species, and as a family man in the current age, on the nature of our age relative to things like childlike play, the seasons, sense memory. A gentle reminder to sometimes get out of our own headspace and get into the water and splash around while we can.
I love this contemplative piece. What a treat, Tim!