Unknown Territory
“If there were no continual effort to start from the beginning there would be no art. I cannot help it but start from scratch. I am tempted only when I experience something unknown, something new and meaningful for me. It seems, however, that this unknown territory is sooner reached by way of reduction than by growing complexity. Reduction certainly doesn’t mean simplification, but it is the way – at least in an ideal scenario – to the most intense concentration on the essence of things. In the compositional process I always have to find this nucleus first from which the work will eventually emerge."
Arvo Pärt
Interview with Arvo and Nora Pärt
The Musical Times, Autumn 1999
Arvo Pärt
Interview with Arvo and Nora Pärt
The Musical Times, Autumn 1999
A More Tenuous Means of Understanding
“The Industrial Revolution brought one dynamic change to all things made by machine, craftsman, and artist; no longer were they produced on commission, but rather on speculation. Here is the product, created or manufactured; will someone want it? All of the give-and-take between maker and user, then, is broken down, giving way to a more tenuous means of understanding"
Donis A. Dondis
A Primer of Visual Literacy
Donis A. Dondis
A Primer of Visual Literacy
"I wanted to create a surface where experimental work could flourish. I was aware and told people early on that I thought it would be a contemporary version of Emigre Magazine - something so dearly missed in our field today. At the time, I wasn’t thinking about how long it might last, but I had a very, very strong feeling that it would find a global audience.”
Erik Brandt
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