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“Tradition is the record of imaginative experience.” — Kathleen Raine, Blake and Tradition When we speak of the tradition of art making, we are talking about something much larger than “traditional” art. These two terms are often confused, yet they describe very different ideas. The tradition of art making is the vast, ongoing record of human creative exploration. It is the cumulative
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Every work of art—whether a drawing, painting, photograph, sculpture, or digital creation—exists first and foremost as an embodiment of its own medium. Before we even engage with what it represents, we are met with how it has been made. The strokes of a brush, the texture of paper, the grain of a photograph, or the
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Art is never simply a finished product hanging on a wall or resting on a pedestal. It is, first and foremost, the outcome of a process — a dynamic interplay of thought, experimentation, emotion, intuition, and technique. This process may begin as a vague notion, a conceptual question, or even a visceral response to the
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— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception Whatever we know, we know through the world that surrounds us. Knowledge is never detached from lived experience; it is always grounded in our embodied encounter with reality. The world is not a neutral container but the very condition of our existence. To see, to touch, to listen — these
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I’ve often thought about what truly makes something “art.” Over the years, I’ve come to believe that art cannot be defined by the medium or the method of its creation. To me, art is not about whether a piece is made with oil paint, clay, pixels, or performance—it’s about a shared recognition, a collective sense
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