One of the frustrating things in life is when other people refuse to believe your ideas without first going through a confirmation process to prove you right or wrong. We all need to have confidence to trust and believe, but some people put themselves in the position of arbiter of everyone's experience.
This is often expected when one has a new concept in art or science, but, for example, my wife never dyes her hair, and her friends and colleagues generally refuse to believe this. They are teachers. They know best. They are her age - they have to dye their hair and therefore my wife must dye hers.
What are they afraid of that they must refute something so simple? Are they dishonest and by implication assume that others are the same?
I conceptualise without first counting bodies, and this is beyond belief for many people that I work with.
Imagine that you are a linguist - any theory can be checked by assembling a suitable array of books and counting words and phrases.
Imagine that you are a psycholgist - any theory can be checked by assembling a suitable array of people and counting their experiences.
Imagine that you are an engineer and you conceive of a new product - since you have yet to build an example, you cannot go out and collect a representative sample to count, nothing yet exists.
It can make a difference, people without objects or people to count have to learn to trust what cannot yet be counted. However, if you always have the luxury of counting, your loss is belief.
We love - but we do not have to love like our neighbours simply to ensure that what we have is love. And it is love, no matter what your experience is.
Monday, March 2, 2009
025-Measuring Experience
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
021-Self Portrait Quality
When you see the pictures people take that other people like, often they react to the youthfulness, and the 'norms' of Body Mass Index and Beauty. What is easier for the shapely 20 year old to take a shot of their legs and think they have created Art? Try doing the same when you are 50 or if you are considered medically overleaf!
BTW: this is not a graph in the traditional sense, this is an expression of my Art. As a result I am not going to give you a full explanation, that is not the purpose of Art.
The further away from the 20 norm you are, the harder it is to find an appreciative audience, and you have to put more in to your Art to achieve anything like the same level of acceptance. That's good - if you can do that then you are a lot further down the road of Art than the 20-norms.
If you are a 20, then, sorry, but you are going to have to try a helluva lot harder than flashing your cleavage or wardrobe to impress me.
