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Living Life with Art

Rumination : The act or process of chewing cud. Experiencing art as a digital blip on a small screen is anachronism to me. I'm skeptical about using fast technologies to share slow processes and thoughts. Even with the sound off (and it seldom is), the digital world is a noisy, frantic place; my sensibilities have more in common with a grazing cow than a computer screen. But here I am - off we go! Art asks questions, inspires long thoughts, remembers things, tells stories, observes. It engages with beauty and mystery, humor and delight, with anger and pain and grace. Artworks come to us always as bearers of an idea with a particular point of view, but the insights that they carry and the lens that they offer aren't always obvious at a glance. Sometimes the only way to receive them is to live with them for awhile, to use them, move them around, find their edges and soft spots. To let them climb into your head and crawl around under your skin. Nuance, inflection, in