Creating a Sense of Wonder
Featured image: We Are What We Wonder How do you create a sense of wonder in your life, in your artwork, if you are an artist? If you are a lover of the arts, when you look at a work of art, what is it that grabs you and gives you that sense of wonder—what stops you so you delight in the work? Do you ever stop in your tracks and ask, how did he or she do that? And then you are so curious that you look around the work to see if you can figure it out. You look around again to make sure no one is watching you, and if I were there I would say to you, go ahead, I am curious too. How did he do that? And you both bend and look underneath and try to figure it out. And if it is indeed me, you really look at it and really touch it—first making sure you don’t have a camera on you and don’t have a guard close by. No, you don’t even consider this at the MOMA. But I have inched up way too close to an artwork and been reprimanded, and then reprimanded again, and called MISS. Oh, I hate that. Do...
