Category: brave art
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Define Courageous
Recently I’ve found myself considering how to define courageous in the modern climate and wondering whether or not I have any courage. Two ways to define courageous in this exploration have really stuck with me. One comes from Lewis and one comes from a guy I hardly ever read named Tillich. We’ll start with Tillich, who…
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Sense of Wonder : Awaken and Enliven
As I’ve now said in Art and Fear, in Carefree Art, and in The Hipster Fallacies (and as was implied in the quote on Science and Agnosticism) it is the job of the artist to awaken the sense of wonder in the world, to use their imagination as the organ of meaning and connect the…
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A Defense of Boring Personalities
No boring subject exists, just bored people. Boring personalities tend to find the subjects they bore into quite fascinating, stimulating, and they usually emerge as experts in their field. Bored people are cool, but dilettantes. My bride’s mother used to tell her essentially that good girls should never be bored. At first blush, I hated…
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Social Media Break : Post Mortem on my Year Off Social Media
People have asked me how my yearlong social media break went. Great and terrible. It was terrible because I failed in my goal to write every one who signed up for handwritten letters. On the upside of that failure, I wrote dozens and dozens of folks. I think I’m up to fifty or something, so…
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Carefree Art
Over the next week, I’m going to talk about making brave art and making art bravely and today that means talking about carefree art. Featured Download: If you’d rather have the cliffnotes of the entire Brave Art series, click here. As we move into 2018 and talk about shifting towards carefree art and living free…
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Art and Fear : On Public Foolishness
Over the next week, I’m going to talk about making brave art and making art bravely and today that means talking about both art and fear. Featured Download: If you’d rather have the cliffnotes of the entire Brave Art series, click here. Through the silliness that is late stage capitalism — indeed through a certain business…
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Fail Fast Habits
Over the next week, I’m going to talk about making brave art and making art bravely and today that means talking about my fail fast resolutions. Featured Download: If you’d rather have the cliffnotes of the entire Brave Art series, click here. Here’s the thing: not only am I not perfect, I fail often and…
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Sitting at the Feet of Diabetic Art
Right now, as you read this, a black market thrives and it’s not a black market of diabetic art. They don’t trade guns or bombs or sex slaves or heroin. The Type One DiabetesBlack Market vs. Diabetic Art They trade one another test strips for insulin, sensors for infusion sets, diabetic to diabetic. They do…