An ongoing theme of this blog has been examining the disconnect between our pre-cognitive response to the world we live in vs. our intellectual response.
We’ve come down on the side of the pre-cognitive, i.e., the art – poetry, music, prose…etc. – that gives one goose bumps even though it's difficult to explain why, exactly.
That sentiment describes much of what we've experienced in our visual explorations of the local landscape – not so much a photographic recording of reality as it is a response to the discovery of “beauty” (whatever that is) in unlikely places.
This observation by painter Pablo Picasso neatly sums it up:
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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