Anodyne
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
 

James Benning: "I used to teach a course called 'Looking and Listening.' I’d take ten or twelve students some place (an oil field in the Central Valley, the homeless area near downtown Los Angeles, a kilometer-long hand-dug tunnel in the Mojave foothills, etc.) where they would head out on their own and practice paying attention. I never required a paper, or a work of art, or led a discussion. If there was an assignment, it was to become better observers. And that they did: afterwards their art grew in a far more subtle direction."
- posted by cjb @ 6:24 PM


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