On Time
Another post that's almost all takeaways.
The Human Universals that relate to time:
measuring
rituals
time, cyclic
units of time
My book CONTINUA-TION utilizes the Universals in context with art-making, in context with one top-level Universal: Continua (Ordering as a Cognitive Pattern).
We become what time has allowed.
A characteristic of good art is to stand the test of time and its ability to be continuously contemporary by reflecting the current times.
Time takes time in different ways.
Time needs rhythm to give it form.
The main problem with art objects over music is that art can be glanced at in a matter of seconds. In music, you get more time. In either case, time is there to be fully used.
Time doesn't necessarily have to be set aside. In fact, saving it for the future makes it more likely to go unused or wasted.
Time is a way of seeing.
We tend to celebrate numbers rather than contemplate duration.
Art should enhance your worldview ever so slightly, which will widen over time.
Time makes art on its own.
There's a timeless part of you that you must return to. You can get there in no time.
Music performance allows one to be intimately involved with the passing of time.
The time in which an artist dies is just as important as the time they were born.
Time is a portrait, not a landscape.
Beauty is formless and timeless. Even when the beautiful object disappears, the idea of its beauty floats in the ether.
A memory is an interpretation of a point in time, not a record of it.
If you want to slow down, experience music in real-time by playing it, observe the environment around you more closely, photograph your environment, and really look at art rather than zooming past it.
Wisdom is (at the very least) an accumulation of time.
Photographers frame and crop reality at the time of the exposure and in the making of the print, whereas painters can re-work reality in real-time.
The terms 'music composition' and 'composer' are constantly changing, but the process is essentially the same: making art that unfolds over time.
Good art makes time transparent.
Every day, time can seem to move at different rates, with different emotional qualities. At the end of the day, you will always be left with some kind of distortion of chronological time: You feel that you have either been drained of time or are drowning in it.