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I put work into the world for two reasons: first, because I feel compelled to; and second, as an act of communication. I have done work in which I myself am the target of communication, where there is something I can only clarify to myself by putting it outside my mind, out in the world with its own material boundaries. But the temptation is always there to take that process of self-inquiry a step further: Now that I have gotten clear about that idea or image or thing that was in my mind, what will be its relation to other minds? Will it clarify something for them, too? Will they experience it as I do, or in a completely different way? This is part of how I discover who I am, simultaneously with my discovery of who others are: the work enables us to find out what we have in common and what differentiates us from one another, through our similar or dissimilar responses to it. At this point, every work is nothing without the visitors who view it. Any work that exists in its own...More
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I put work into the world for two reasons: first, because I feel compelled to; and second, as an act of communication. I have done work in which I myself am the target of communication, where there is something I can only clarify to myself by putting it outside my mind, out in the world with its own material boundaries. But the temptation is always there to take that process of self-inquiry a step further: Now that I have gotten clear about that idea or image or thing that was in my mind, what will be its relation to other minds? Will it clarify something for them, too? Will they experience it as I do, or in a completely different way? This is part of how I discover who I am, simultaneously with my discovery of who others are: the work enables us to find out what we have in common and what differentiates us from one another, through our similar or dissimilar responses to it. At this point, every work is nothing without the visitors who view it. Any work that exists in its own...More
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