Eway
Senior Member
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- Dec 30, 2003
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- Chinese
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- Taiwan
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- Taiwan
Dear Teachers,
I read this topic about "gain dusguised as loss" from The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron. It talks about one's loss during artistic pursuit. For example, when you're offered an art scholarship in another city but turn it down because you don't want to leave home. Then it goes:
"Art is the act of structuring time. 'Look at it this way,' a piece of art says, 'Here's how I see it.' As my waggish friend the novelist Eve Babitz remarks, 'It's all in the frame.' This is particularly true when what we are dealing with is an artistic loss. Every loss must always be viewed as a potential gain; it's all in the framing."
I'm confused from the very first sentence of this paragraph. What does it mean by "art is the act of structuring time"? And then, how can a piece of art talk?:-? When this piece of art says "look at it this way", does "it" refer to art? What does "frame/framing" mean in this context?
I read this topic about "gain dusguised as loss" from The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron. It talks about one's loss during artistic pursuit. For example, when you're offered an art scholarship in another city but turn it down because you don't want to leave home. Then it goes:
"Art is the act of structuring time. 'Look at it this way,' a piece of art says, 'Here's how I see it.' As my waggish friend the novelist Eve Babitz remarks, 'It's all in the frame.' This is particularly true when what we are dealing with is an artistic loss. Every loss must always be viewed as a potential gain; it's all in the framing."
I'm confused from the very first sentence of this paragraph. What does it mean by "art is the act of structuring time"? And then, how can a piece of art talk?:-? When this piece of art says "look at it this way", does "it" refer to art? What does "frame/framing" mean in this context?