Co-generation
"...we're prone to overestimate our own agency in nature....Our grammar might teach us to divide the world into active subjects and passive objects, but in a coevolutionary relationship every subject is also an object, every object a subject." Michael Pollan, in The Botany of Desire Lately I've found myself engaged again and again in contemplation, analysis, meditation on what constitutes "nature" and "the natural". This is, of course, the ancient philosophic question of "the good". In visual art, it is that play between the geometrically perfect conception, a drafted representation of a thing in itself, and the shaky, sloppy, imperfect movements that more accurately record and express the psychic and physical being of the artist, his mutability, his reality, that I feel characterizes all "great" art. What is it "the struggle of the artist against his limitations" Vonnegut said... It is the search, the strugg...
