visual journal dawn houser
Since January, I have had to evaluate (and reevaluate) my life. What has value to me and what does not? What is art to me? How does design factor into my life? -----------------------see?
This journal holds some thoughts on these ideas. By way of Divine engineering, I started the first of my Art Ed classes side by side with my Vis Com class. It fed me while I pondered the art and design of my life. These thoughts led me back to the song writing of Joni Mitchell, Emerson, Thoreau and my first studies of Transcendentalism. St. Francis of Assisi once said “He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands, his head, and his heart, is an artist.�
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is an artist.
I wanna fool around with you, World, but can you be gone by the time I wake up? It is
just that I do dependent to th
I also want more know firsthand w book feels, the w with people and face all up in the
Hopefully, they h unpave parking
on’t want to be too connected and he world and its technology.
e for my three children. They should what library books smell like, how a weight of paper and true interaction d not droids that facesave with their eir cellphone’s grill.
have a desire to find a way to lots and put up their own paradises.
Society never advances. It recedes fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual cha es; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it i christianized, it is rich, it is scientifi but this change is amelioration. Fo every thing that is given, somethi is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
Ralph Waldo Emers Self-Reliance
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I appreciate that someone wants to imprint a brand on my brain and tap into the memory of emotions and senses. Hey, pimps gotta eat, too. But just because they wanna doesn’t mean they are gonna.
forgot how to use their hands.
Before the coming of printed books, all that anyone could learn about the mechanical devices of earlier civilizations was from wordy and pictureless descriptions written by gentlemen-scholars who had never made or used them. All that medical students, who as yet had no access to laboratories or dissecting rooms, could learn about the structure of the human body or of the identity of supposedly healing herbs, they had to learn from hand-copied manuals with neither diagrams nor realistic pictures.
The great artists who made detailed pictures of human anatomy and structures of plants helped science to develop a more critical attitude.
Without printing and without the artists
who had done so much to help
make printing possible,
the great advances
of medical knowledge in the following century
could never have happened.
the role of the artist
BUT MY BRAIN STILL DOESN’T
UNDERSTAND WHAT THE HELL RUDOLF ARNHEIM WAS TALKING ABOUT.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported by crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance
UNP
OR GET A
Fuck apps and go apply yourself.
PLUG
A FAT ASS.
Does this Ipad make my ass look big?
Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nature is the vehicle of thought, and in a simple, double, and three-fold degree. 1) Words are signs of natural facts. 2) Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts. 3) Nature is the symbol of spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
Don seem tha don wha got
n’t it always m to go at you n’t know at you’ve ‘til it’s gone? Live deliberately. Lead a full life.
Use my good stuff. Read more books. Unplug every day. Worry less.
Make more art. Buy even less.
Smile even more.
Be thankful.
Is your worth measured by your connectedness?
New Yorker magazine
Live deliberately. “Those young whippersnappers forgot how to use their hands.�
Lead a full life. Use my good stuff. Read more books. Unplug every day. Worry less. Make more art. Buy even less. Smile even more.
They
Be thankful.
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dawn houser http://dawnhouser.com dawn@dawnhouser.com copyright 2012 dawn houser. all rights reserved.
is an artist.