Sunday, April 04, 2010
Dreaming
"For such a man, art is an act of faith:
Prayer the study of it, as Blake says,
And praise the practice; nor does he divide
Making from teaching, or from theory.
The three are one, and in his hours of art
There shines a happiness through darkest themes,
As though spirit and sense were not at odds."
From "The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar’s House" by Howard Nemerov
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The cat naps, but I can't yet.
Finished (for now) with Preziosi, up to my eyeballs in Poussin's Seven Sacraments, leaving for a business trip tomorrow at 5am, and traveling to work conferences about every other week through late May.
I have until the end of April to write my final research paper, and digest/recall canonical works of art from the Renaissance on until the present moment.
I then have a scholarly conference in May, and need to get that presentation into shape.
So through until at least the beginning of June, my weekends and weeknights are spent studying/looking at paintings and trying to think, and then trying to write; my weekdays and weeknights are spent wrangling business doings.
I miss my playtime, I look forward to time to dream.
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