tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379518858474986857.post5787429210043411057..comments2024-01-27T00:42:48.097-08:00Comments on Renaissance Oaf: So How Was The Reading?Sean Cravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13763869499494698057noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379518858474986857.post-5730914130780931152011-08-16T14:50:51.686-07:002011-08-16T14:50:51.686-07:00Thanks, Glendon! For someone like me, experiencing...Thanks, Glendon! For someone like me, experiencing synaesthesia is like a birdwatcher seeing a sandhill crane out of season.Sean Cravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13763869499494698057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379518858474986857.post-49481024686372123642011-08-15T17:48:30.778-07:002011-08-15T17:48:30.778-07:00"The sound of a handclap is a white spark, li...<i>"The sound of a handclap is a white spark, like fireworks."</i><br /><br />This is why I love your writing. Damn, Sean! Beautiful stuff hitting me in the gut.Glendon Mellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03582347493421110738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379518858474986857.post-38714942746344667122011-08-15T09:03:36.546-07:002011-08-15T09:03:36.546-07:00My breakthrough moment in the visual arts was when...My breakthrough moment in the visual arts was when I had one of those experiences and found myself able to control the shapes, move them around, and use them to construct images. I drew dramatically better the next day.<br /><br />And that was the mightiest flow I've ever experienced. I've never felt that combination of rush and control before. Man, it was something.Sean Cravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13763869499494698057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379518858474986857.post-86488316332898878862011-08-15T08:53:47.019-07:002011-08-15T08:53:47.019-07:00Ha ha! Awesome and scary. yes. I've been there...Ha ha! Awesome and scary. yes. I've been there. I've had (and hope to have again) moments where my visual field become nothing more than a collection of flat colored shapes, a huge abstraction, a living Pollack. Sometimes it's just an instance, sometimes I can "play" with it, and have a shape resolve into meaning, "oh it's a chair! I remember those!" then it's gone a again, 4 strange uprights and some crossbeams, but just color and shape.<br /><br />Glad you were able to push through and let it feed into your performance state. Olivier called it the "flow."Novysanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07702993822732121992noreply@blogger.com