so goosebumps is what i am chasing in my work.
love this definition of great work.
(i recently came across this same definition by Anjani bai Malpekar - Kumar Gandharva's Guru).
it's clear. it's perceivable. if it gives me goosebumps, it's great. if it doesn't it's not.
However it's not easily actionable.
how does one practice it? how does one make stuff that gives one goosebumps?
It won't lead to 'saleable' artwork.
(who will buy stuff that gives goosebumps? jokes apart - i am sure it's difficult to sell great work. it's deep, daring and appreciated by few - unless it becomes a trend - and it might take decades to reach the right people). Anyway, let's keep saleability aside. There are a thousand ways to earn money, but no one knows a thousand ways of doing great work.
So coming back to manufacturing goosebumps.
i decided to see what gives me goosebumps. in every field.
whatever make me feel it. decided to just put it down.
a concrete road. a piece of music by kumar. zen, clarity, the moment. calder, the tension. rand, the distillation. jobs, and intensity. rothko and oneness. gaitonde, the pure aesthetic. corbusier, the surface, the horizon. kahn, distillation. anish kapoor, width. rodin, thinker, the kiss : intensity again, rams: clarity.
not all the works by all these were great. but they produced /have produced some great work, consistently. what i saw in their works which give me goosebumps.
original. these works have no past, no future. they seem as if they are just born. swayambhu.
these works are one. they are not a sum of parts. there is not start, no end point. they are whole.
they don't talk. they meet your mind. they take your breath away.
they have an existence independent of the creator, the medium, the place and their elements. they have a life.
they are clarified. distilled.
these works are austere.
these are very inward looking, very deep and absolutely unaware of the world they exist in. (may be that's why they are timeless.)
swatantra. sampurna. ekjeev. jivanta.
the recipe to goosebumps.
love this definition of great work.
(i recently came across this same definition by Anjani bai Malpekar - Kumar Gandharva's Guru).
it's clear. it's perceivable. if it gives me goosebumps, it's great. if it doesn't it's not.
However it's not easily actionable.
how does one practice it? how does one make stuff that gives one goosebumps?
It won't lead to 'saleable' artwork.
(who will buy stuff that gives goosebumps? jokes apart - i am sure it's difficult to sell great work. it's deep, daring and appreciated by few - unless it becomes a trend - and it might take decades to reach the right people). Anyway, let's keep saleability aside. There are a thousand ways to earn money, but no one knows a thousand ways of doing great work.
So coming back to manufacturing goosebumps.
i decided to see what gives me goosebumps. in every field.
whatever make me feel it. decided to just put it down.
not all the works by all these were great. but they produced /have produced some great work, consistently. what i saw in their works which give me goosebumps.
original. these works have no past, no future. they seem as if they are just born. swayambhu.
these works are one. they are not a sum of parts. there is not start, no end point. they are whole.
they don't talk. they meet your mind. they take your breath away.
they have an existence independent of the creator, the medium, the place and their elements. they have a life.
they are clarified. distilled.
these works are austere.
these are very inward looking, very deep and absolutely unaware of the world they exist in. (may be that's why they are timeless.)
swatantra. sampurna. ekjeev. jivanta.
the recipe to goosebumps.
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