What to do with this urge to
destroy.... to bulldoze someone else's sandcastle (maybe one your
little sister sweated over), the urge to twirl twirl and swing my
powerful metal arm into anything everything. A tantrum of smashing
or ... expression?
the urge to flatten tar, to drag a
snarl of charcoal across a page, the mischief of holding a
paintbrush full of viridian green in front of a 'finished' painting.
electric energy seeks an outlet. plug
in or blow a fuse. art is learning to wrangle the live wire?
“the transformation of sounds,
babblings, lalling, and so forth, into language is a perfect
illustration of the way in which acts of expression are brought into
existence and also of the difference between them and mere acts of
discharge. “(Dewey, J. Art As Experience.(1934) The
Berkley Publishing Group, page 62)
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