While it’s still somewhat fresh in my mind, here is the other result I had that I realize (in retrospect) was probably connected to my QTKS custom, Sapiens.
Yesterday, in London, on the final day of my UK trip, I visited the Tate Modern art gallery with my family. It’s one of the respected art museums in the world, like The Louvre or New York’s Museum of Modern Art. My wife has always been deeply into fine art so I’ve been to a number of such places, large and small, over the years. I have my own relationship with art, but it’s much more personal and, for example, was never related to anything I’d formally studied.
Yesterday, at the Tate, I found myself having a different relationship with all of the art that I saw. It was like I was ‘getting it’ in a different sort of way. The shift didn’t feel unnatural or anything. It did, however, feel significant and noticeable. It was as if Aesthetics as a general category of concern just had a more explicit and specific space in my mind. It was easier for me to integrate and make sense of the things I was seeing, and I really enjoyed doing so. It was also interesting that after about 60-90 minutes, my brain felt quite tired.
It was like I was taking in the pieces as aesthetic and informational experiences. We all have aesthetic experiences every day, and we all deal in information every day; but this felt more rarefied, more intense, and at a higher level than usual. There was an active internal engagement in digesting and processing what I was observing.
Artists are part of an ongoing, evolving conversation(s) with all of society and all of the Environment; about form(s), about meaning(s), about roles and styles of engagement and participation. How will things look? How will form and function inter-relate? How will we and others present to the world and within the world? How will we describe and express who and what we are? There are so many possible parts to all of these. And each artist makes their particular contributions.
So, I was having that experience yesterday.
Today, it occurred to me that this, too, was facilitated by my long engagement with Quantum Limitless (and possibly a bit of Genesis and others too). That was a cool realization to have.
