John shared with us some of Rainer Maria Rilke's work in order to discuss the nature of being an artist. The poem at the top comes from Rilke's Possibility of Being. The second photo shows pages four and five from Letters on Cezanne. When discussing "This is the Creature," John said that everyone interprets poetry differently, but he can see this as being a metaphor for the process of an artist. Here are some other thoughts he mentioned while reading the poem to us.
-Creating the possibility to create art
-Making something unmade
-Giving birth to something that the normal paradigm will not care for
-Too much self disclosure scares the unicorn away
See what insights you gain about yourself and the process of making art as you read these sections and create work in the studio.
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