On the need to be in the mood to see art the way the artist intends
I just started spacing out my paragraph essays. So now they’re all on separate pages. I like this. And if I ever print this, I will keep it this way because the space punctuates that the words are meant to occupy as much time as a full page.
But then I realized how someone may be bothered and wonder why I left so much blank space. It is not because I hate the environment. I just think that the work will look better that way and each idea deserves at least its own page so as to not rush through each dense essay as if it is merely one to three paragraphs.
This makes me wonder about every museum I strolled through, the paintings on the walls, the sculptures in the displays. What were the artists thinking and feeling?
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