Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.
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Always with me. This is important.
Oh, hey! It’s been such a long lovely day I almost forgot to mention that 12 years ago I married my favorite human on the planet.
There are few satisfactions more satisfying than finishing a good book. ?
Colin Walker is a Survivor. I’m thankful for him and everyone willing to stand up and be visible.
Suicide is not giving up, it is not a selfish act. It is losing a long awful battle with your own mind. But please respect that person fought every day. Every day.
“Everyone was born to ride unicorns. Not just she, but everyone.”
— Beatrix, age 10, has thoughts about the exclusionary nature of some Instagram memes.
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to
be accepted by others. You need to be yourself.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Two sides of a sunset.
Local hero and international superstar Prince would have been 60 years old today. Local favorite radio station 89.3 The Current is streaming 60 essential Prince songs to celebrate. It’s been a pretty solid playlist so far with a rarity or two thrown in.