March 28, 2008
Clusterflock: Creator, practitioner, or appreciator?
When it comes to art? Whatever the form. Like with music…one, with natural talent or with learning, creates it. One can play / sing it, if one learns the code. One can listen and understand the piece played whether or not they have the code in their bag of tricks.
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All of the above. Below.
Your either reading my personal blog or there is something in this midwestern air.
Yes. And what Sheila said too.
The more I think about this the more I wonder if it might be a trick question.
The “appreciator” so often laments NOT being the creator. The “creator” rarely seems to lament their position the grand scheme.
Which is the fool?
This is going to bug me all night now.
No trick. Just somethin’ that’s been janglin’ in me lately. Andrew, thanks for the quote, there is something in the delivery.
The impetus last night for my question? We watched the shiny turd, “August Rush,” during which I wept at beautiful small moments and then at other larger moments was revulsed.
All of the above, I think. Unless practitioner tends more toward one’s playing of music or participating in the dance. In writing, creator and practitioner are one, no?
There are times when I want to say It’s all in the delivery, but of course that’s not true. A beautiful delivery of crap thoughts is still full of crap. I aim, I suppose, toward the balance of content and form–thought and delivery–but I know for a fact that in my drawing (which I am, at best, learning how to do) my content is totally unexceptional, so. . . .
I might suggest, not totally with my tongue in my cheek, to Tracy that I might be one creator of words who does lament his position.