Exploring New Worlds

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Jerry’s Artarama

I have no desire to run away, but I do explore different worlds at times — without leaving home. I’m thinking of the videos and DVDs I made for Christmas sharing, for my Sunday school class, and for our local TV station. And also the hours I’ve spent playing with Photoshop, modifying the look of my web sites, etc.

I usually don’t use the word art because it sounds much too pretentious for what I want to do. But I do agree with the gal who said

I create fine art. As long as I create it, it’s fine.

One author also said modern art is about the process, not the product. I can relate to that. I told Andy I fully understand why modern artists do what they do. I just can’t understand why people pay them for it. Yes, it was a joke showing our lack of artistic sensibilities, and he laughed.

Anyway, have you ever wanted to run away and/or explored new worlds from home?


 

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25 Responses to Exploring New Worlds

  1. nick says:

    I was bullied a lot at boarding school and I can’t for the life of me explain why I didn’t just run away. I must have had some peculiar boyish idea of taking all the shit and not being bothered by it. Except that I was and the emotional scars don’t go away.

    No wish to run away now though, my life is just great as it is. I’m a culture vulture and there’s more than enough culture around to keep me endlessly stimulated.

  2. Rummuser says:

    I ran away from home immediately after school!

    • Jean says:

      I knew my parents’ lifestyle would drive me bonkers, but I didn’t run away from home as much as work toward finding something that suited me better. I stayed close to them.

  3. Mike says:

    I joined the Navy and left my previous life behind and only went back for a couple of visits, to see family, not the old life. I’ve sometimes, jokingly, that the choice was either the Navy or taking off to be a hippy.

    • Jean says:

      It sounds as if the Navy was good choice under the circumstances. I imagine you never regretted it?

    • Mike says:

      Actually, no. The Navy job experience led to my career in commercial nuclear. Plus, I had no truly terrible experiences in the service.

  4. tammyj says:

    i wish i had the courage now that i had when i was younger.
    only i wasn’t alone when i was younger… so maybe it’s a moot point.
    if i had the courage today… not to mention the money LOLOL…
    i would run away and see the giant redwoods.
    and i would live in a different wonderful place about every 6 months.
    there are so many places i would like to try.
    but i stay here.
    my health precludes a life like that now. and i would miss the marine.
    so…. i’m happy. reading books.
    making FINE art. LOLOL. … thanks to a generous friend of mine…
    and just loving life in general i guess.

    • Jean says:

      If you had the money it wouldn’t take too long to fly to CA and see the redwoods. Muir Woods isn’t that far from San Francisco. It would be easier and more fun with a companion, though. The traffic is bad.

    • bikehikebabe says:

      Here it is not on Facebook.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHisd9P2M-Y

    • bikehikebabe says:

      By 3rd grade I was taking tap, ballet & piano lessons. Mother said wouldn’t I rather narrow it down to just PIANO. DUH! What did I know at that age? So I did that. Mistake! It was piano from then on through high school.

    • Jean says:

      That’s too big a decision to have to make in third grade! I wanted to learn to play the piano and my sister wanted to take tap dancing. We both had to do the same thing, so tap dancing it was. I didn’t take piano lessons until I graduated from college.

    • bikehikebabe says:

      My piano/organ background was great. I got really good at it. BUT my calling was DANCE.

  5. Cathy in NZ says:

    my parents sent me away to the other side of the world in 1968 – they were sad, but I was glad – I found life without elderly parents…

    I run away in my workroom quite a lot with my art and believe me people have bought items I have made – twice since I rejoined an art network.

    I need to make 2 x max/10″ pieces in the next few weeks for exhibition titled “Small”

  6. Evan says:

    ” modern art is about the process, not the product”. And don’t the results look like it.

    This is unfair to good modern art of course.

    I never ran away from home, left with my parents’ blessings and returned home periodically. I think of encountering a new philosophy or approach or historical period as exploring another world.

    • Jean says:

      I like some non-representational art, but I don’t like a lot of pieces that are supposed to be “good”.

      I agree with you that encountering new ideas is exploring other worlds when we spend some time learning about them.

  7. KB says:

    The Runner and I run away all the time, and we explore the west in our van. So, I think running away from everyday life is fun!!!!

    As for “art” – I was floored when my friend who is a famous and full-time artist said that my photography was art, I almost fell over. I don’t think of it that way… but I do love the process of creating it.

  8. nick says:

    Things did indeed change after I left school. Firstly I got a job as a journalist which was extremely eye-opening and secondly it was the late sixties when there was a cultural explosion in every direction. So I was enjoying myself immensely.

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