diptych # 66 (civilized ku # 2716-17) ~ feeling the current

interior / exeterior • late day light ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenIt was Renoir who stated, "You have to be cork, a cork in the current, You have to follow the current." It was his son, Jean Renoir, the renown film maker, who added, "Of course, the cork has to be a little intelligent, not completely stupid. It has to try to shift to the right or to the left so a to choose the moment when the current is best suited to it and to move a little in this direction, but the general direction is determined by events, by the current." Then, writing of currents, there is this:

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. ~ Cyril Connolly

I bring up the notion of the cork, the current, and the dark rapids of an underground river as a follow up to the recent being original / finding your vision entry (triptych # 18 ... variety is the spice of life / on being original). IMO, being like a cork (with a little intelligence, not stupidity) and flowing in the current of what you see in the dark rapids of the underground river part of life - got to get through that bramble patch of filtered seeing first - is a fine way to find your vision.

Of course, that course of action depends upon the corks ability to "feel it", because unless you feel it you will never understand it ....

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. ~ Pablo Picasso