I’ve come to a point where I’m realizing that it has always been „art“ that is important to me. Not „my art“ or „other people’s art“, and not even art as a field. But simply the experience of art and what it does for us: that it creates an experience for our senses, that it pulls us into presence, that it makes us become aware of our consciousness, our aliveness. Hence my deep intuition that studying, creating, pondering and teaching art are all sides of the same multidimensional coin that is my life.
I sometimes get asked why I’m not releasing more work – after all I have the processes to generate a lot in a short time. But there is no rush to release as much new work as possible when so much great art is being created. Spotting the greatness in another person’s work can be just as valuable. Reflecting it back to them can be one of the greatest gifts. And letting those works and insights infuse our teaching will spread it to even more people.
Just like composing, to teach is to create an experience for others. Teaching my thinking and skills is composing-by-proxy, in the sense that others now carry my ideas with them, enhancing them with their own unique perspective, spreading them further than I alone could have. Generative composition.
In so many ways, „my art“ exists independently of me, and of whether I have created it – if I’m not having to take credit for it. Generosity.
That way, other people can create „my art“ as well. Your art is my art. But even my art is not truly mine. There just is art, and it awakens us to presence, to life.
That is all, and it is everything.
Biel, Switzerland, April 21, 2022