“To require perfection is to invite paralysis. The pattern is predictable: as you see error in what you have done, you steer your work toward what you imagine you can do perfectly. Your cling ever more tightly to what you already know you can do, away from risk and exploration, and possibly further from the…
Tag: Janne Lehtinen
A custodian of larger issues
“It is a widely accepted notion that making art is about self-expression. And it is – but that is not necessarily all it is. It may only be a passing feature of our times that validating the sense of who-you-are is held up as the major source of the need to make art. What gets…
Patricia Fargnoli
Patricia Fargnoli is an author I know nothing about, but luckily others do! Here is poet Ren Powell‘s recent: Interview with Patricia Fargnoli ps: Photographs here and there by the Finish artist Janne Lehtinen
Message for the Disheartened
Isn’t this just wonderful?! Message for the Disheartened by Patricia Fargnoli When you are expecting nothing a letter arrives and someone decides for you. Your arms fall to your sides, your hands open. You dress for the weather in your gold moccasins and prepare for long journeys to distant countries. The foxes who come out…
1 = 1
Today I have been reading “1 = 1” by Anne Carson It’s a wonderful text, you’ll find it in THE NEW YORKER – and here are just a few lines for you: Imagine how many pools, ponds, lakes, bays, streams, stretches of swimmable shore there are in the world right now, probably half of them…
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