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natalie 💫 retweeted
Related: it’s an excellent idea to design your life as a research project to explore the thing you’re most interested in. In fact, this is probably the best “health” and “energy” and “sleep” advice there is. But no one will tell you this when you tell them you have sleep or health problems.
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You can’t serve two masters. If you pursue craftsmanship in the arts in this day and age, You will naturally have to move at a pace and with an intention that will make you feel like you’re being left behind.
We are trying to replace what is irreplaceable with speed and aesthetics and it just can’t be. Now we want our artists brandable, and we want them to be machines, we scarcely give them time to feel their way through their own becoming.
This is because the ultimate end goal of art in the life of the artist is self actualization. It takes time and inner focus that is threatened by a world that would have artists make space for neither.
The gap is getting wider, there’s almost no way to do inner work and live within the bounds of the machine. It is going to be a lonely road for artists that really want truth, but what else do we have?
Dark days at present and darker ahead, nevertheless we must be present for all of it.
natalie 💫 retweeted
One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.
Engaging in mental gymnastics to justify what's convenient but unevidenced, unjust but personally beneficial, 'rewires your neural map' in ways that degrade your overall ability to understand and analyze the world around you, which is a precondition for intelligence and creativity.
natalie 💫 retweeted
If you consume this much and you *aren’t* creating, though, it’ll literally poison your mind. You will not be able to think clearly.
Talk to a top-tier creative and chances are, you’ll be blown away by how prolific they are in their consumption: The musician who listens to 10 albums a week, the designer who’s visited antique stores in 57 countries, the architect who’s living room is stacked with piles of reference guides, the writer who’s read 1,000 novels, the filmmaker who watches 400 movies per year. The method varies, but the core pattern stays the same… it’s constant consumption, day after day.
natalie 💫 retweeted
Music is very clearly the greatest form of art, and the written word is (probably) second. It is genuinely amazing that the human brain is able to enjoy both simultaneously.
natalie 💫 retweeted
I don’t think you just make a new generational aesthetic with that as the goal. It’s a byproduct of something you are attempting to explore or resolve; a new ethos, philosophy, or problem to be addressed, expressed through art or design. Otherwise it’s got no drive or footing.
A Call for New Aesthetics: newaesthetics.art.
unfortunate but true.
