In class yesterday, Sai touched on a topic I'll name and paraphrase here... I understood the subject to be about the decline of "direct"-artmaking (as opposed to mediated and created through the use of a computer). "No one's going to paint and draw anymore!" I think about its implications. If there is a body part I worship, they are hands. I know energy is a really abstract word sometimes abused by new age-y trend-speaks, but energy to me is very real and the word as a language tool is a very valid way to speak of all things. Homecooked meals are not just about flavor or even context. It's about the hands, the intention, the experience of its making, the energy directly given into the making with intention (re: 'made with love' advertising gimmicks are trying to get at something very real) as when the baker molds their dough, or the chef sprinkles and stirs spices into their boiling cauldron. Better if its personal, hence homecooked. But definitely whether in restaurants or the home, food is decidedly a better feel cooked as opposed to microwaved, processed, or even mass produced (even if by way of hands, because perhaps it has something to do with the attitude in the making). I dance and I massage, and even in my art-making I respond to my hands' energy directly. There are degrees of removal from this primary energy source that are our hands. This is experienced in the differences between seeing art in person and seeing it digital. Digital arts are impressive for their technical possibilities and creative content, but without either of these things, they lack something I can't name that I find in traditional hand-drawn cartoons, unlike most of today's tv shows for toddlers and young children. I can elaborate but I just wanted to just summarize some brief thoughts here for further reflection later. What are the implications of individuals + society given a normalization of several-degrees removed (referencing that vaguely defined energy source) artwork/art-making? ALSO: My friend Esther writes. She writes most of her content by hand. She says when she writes with the pen, she can feel the texture of her words. That this word feels italic and the next word a little larger and another one pink. She says all this certainty and feels disappear when she starts transcribing it on Word. This doesn't bother her, she just accepts it in its new form, the words still valuable for their meaning regardless of how in tune or not she might be with their aesthetics and textures. But it speaks directly to what I am trying to get at.
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