Jacob Marrel - Tulip with Two Leaves - Morgan Library Drawings Collection from OpenCulture
… so that the way “things have always been done” (which, if the fragmented attention span finds a sec to focus once in the past few weeks / five years / lifetime, hasn't exactly worked out for everyone) doesn't always have to be the way things STAY.
Looking at and experimenting with different stuff helps stretch our brains so that (unlike SOME people) we're not afraid to ask questions like “What if we did it THIS way instead of THAT way …?”
I just survived one of Amos Machanic's Horton Technique Master Classes & got some oxygen so the tone here might be slightly different than it would have been, lol.
At the same time there are a couple of pieces coming up I wanted to highlight that even though they're not exactly lighthearted do still remind us of the necessity to train the eye and the mind to be able to see things from more than one POV, so that we can all progress together.
Of course, me being me, I have a tendency to notice what's missing, even from some grand display – what's NOT there is what was deliberately omitted by the curators and gatekeepers. I like these flowers because tulip season is on its way, but it didn't escape my attention that whoever put together this massive Morgan Library collection included no Jacob Lawrence, and that a search on “south asian” doesn't turn up anything representative (I will frankly share I was afraid to put in a nationality-identifying descriptor like Chinese or Korean for fear of what would show up).
Jacob Marrel - Tulip with Three Leaves - Morgan Library Drawings Collection from OpenCulture
I know we also have a batch of talent in our communities. If you feel so moved on this Equinox weekend, please share your new drawings, photographs, videos, music, or other creations.
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