Zora Neale Hurston
I write this post just after returning from one of our sessions of what we call Biblio - where we go out for breakfast, and sit with our toast and our coffee and read books and articles; explore unusual things that are art-related; write poetry; and all other random type activities that make for an interesting art life.
And on return, this quote popped up as a true validation! I love the descriptor of poking and prying with a purpose!
The older I get, the more I think that curiosity is essential to staying alive. To being active and interested and vital and engaged and happy. Being curious about this that or the other random thing is great.
Today at Biblio I was reading a book called You Are Here - a book about mapping and maps.
Mapping is only a small and tangential thing in my art life, I have done some work in the past about finding my place, and yet I am adoring reading the book and am bouncing ideas out of it left right and centre.
I thinkI find myself on the cusp of curiosity and research. At the moment I am following the line of curiosity, but if things start to take shape in my mind; ideas coalesce into something that has a modicum of form; then perhaps it becomes research. As I am writing notes and jotting down names and websites and the like for follow ups, perhaps it already is...
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Oh my, this book is on one of my many shelves and just recently caught my eye, seeking to be read again ... knowing you are reading it is a wonderful bit of serendip
ReplyDeleteOh how fabulous! I started reading it from the end this time rather than the front. Sometimes I run out of puff or get distracted and never finish one so I figured I would start at the back and work my forwards and maybe meet in the middle where I may have left off last time! Enjoy if you do pick it up again - it has a way of making you think of a thousand things and how they all link and connect and describe a life, a place, a journey. Oh my.
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