Along The Process...

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What is worse, to have a language but nothing to say, or to have a great many things to share but no vocabulary to communicate?

There seems to be a constant struggle between form and content, but what about the form of the content and the content of the form?

Does every idea need justification in the form of a realized work? What if artists just stood on rooftops and screamed their ideas out instead of mellowing them down with materials and physical tangibility?

Sometimes it is better to have no choice at all. The more options you have, the more is the danger of choosing the one that is the most convenient.

Letting go of an idea is not the same as 'choosing' one idea over the other.If there was only one idea ever, an artist would would probably stand, for his whole life perhaps, in summer and rain, waiting for the perfect medium that could do justice to his thought. 

If an artist can have more than one language to communicate, how does he choose which one is heard better? Or is it all about which one he can say better?

And what is more essential, to say or to be heard? 

Words, or tangible materials? Aren't words materials as well, or are they very strong allusions?

Explain an idea, or protect an idea?

Is it the work that is in - progress, or is it the artist who is still the work in - progress?


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