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genius

My newest project: getting intimate with geniuses.

Creative genius is redundant, but I use it anyway to focus on the geniuses of the arts and anything that explicitly solves problems (because that’s what creative work does).

Saw a BBC documentary last Friday: “Art that shook the world” which was (unexpectedly) about The Beach Boys and their 1960s album, Pet Sounds. Amazing docu, opened my eyes to the beauty and weight of music, and the immediacy + possibility great music could evoke (I never really paid attention before)…

Also last weekend, finally started watching the TED talks (see previous post), and got introduced to even more geniuses, among them 29-year-old Jonathan Harris, who has inspired me on so many levels (to revive painting, documenting, and the thrust for the personal, plus pursue my deepest curiosities to the hilt, to push push push NOW!). Visit his site, please. So much joy and playfulness in his work, with equal heart and intellect.