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The Maverick - Epilogue

Hey folks,  the epilogue for The Maverick is up.  I‘m out of town and accidentally  scheduled the post to go public on YouTube which resulted in a flurry of predictably crappy and negative comments so I disabled them. If you have any feedback just post it here.


The Maverick - Epilogue

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I love your teamwork with "smarter people" than you. But, they're not smarter! You're just as smart, just expert in another area. When I did research, the projects I liked the most, were those with researchers from different areas. It really adds to the results.

No need to be hoity-toity about art, it is what it is to the person experiencing it, and we need to allow for all human experiences. One of my favourite pages on Facebook is “Terrible Art found in Charity Shops” and it’s always entertaining when a Klimt or Chagall print gets dragged in, and the mix of reactions from the ones who recognise it versus those who just look at it for the first time and without context think it terrible. A lot of the ‘outrage’ reminds me how much social , historical and human context goes into the appreciation of art… and without it, well, it’s easily just “terrible”. I probably wouldn’t buy this to display in my home, even if I found it in a charity shop… but what stood out to me is the RELATIONSHIP that you have with this artist’s work, that so obviously informs your approach and confidence in working with her work. That really showed through the first video and is emphasised here. That made it special and I’m glad you could also see the humour in some of the comments. Art is meant to be a reflection of ourselves and to go so far as to disparage it is to interact and react to it, which is absolutely a compliment to the artist already. Low level “controversy” is better than ambivalence - Nobody got famous because their flowers were nice or realistic. It also makes me realise the importance of funding the arts and supporting the museums. Experiencing art in person is so much different. In a time when so much content is delivered to the palms of our hands, we need to keep going and experiencing art in musty places, cold cathedrals, and temperature and light-controlled, curated spaces. Disclaimer: I have not an artistic bone in my entire body, and can barely hold a crayon.


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