continued thoughts

Following last weeks post on "What is Art" that lightly touched on Architecture, this week I had the pleasure of watching a video on Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece home "Falling Water". Sure, I know that there have been major, super expensive and very necessary repairs to the building over the years, but given that it was conceived and built around 1935 and engineered to be cantilevered over a waterfall, this is not too surprising. What I do find surprising, is how contemporary the design still feels. The light, the space, the overall feel of everything still has glorious appeal and seems relevant more than 90 years later. In our ongoing hunt for a new home we regularly add "Wright" to our search criteria and often found some very interesting homes in the mix that was offered. It seemed to be a good "sorting criteria" to find homes that would appeal to us. #architecture #Wright

All this caused me to progress to thoughts on creativity and creative people and their work Do truly creative people have to work hard to come up with their magnificent concepts or do the ideas simply "pop" into their heads? I know that I play around with ideas in my brain and sometimes, something really interesting does seem to appear. But more often than not I have to give serious thought to concepts, work at them, work around them, apply some science, mess with them on paper, sometimes I find a spark amongst the junk that really ignites thing, sometimes not:) #creativity #concepts

I do have several sketchbooks filled with ideas that I try to capture before they slip away. These are often "dreamed up" in that luxurious state between wakefulness and sleep, I have considered keeping a sketchbook and pencil next to my bed but I know that once I have woken up sufficiently to put on the light and note this idea down, I will be wide awake and sleep will be totally interrupted. So I rely on the concept that if it is really good it will still be there in the morning! #ideas

But back to the original concept of "what is art".

On our website we make the statement "our mission is to conceive & create one-of-a-kind statement pieces by hand through texture,contrast & mixed media".

Is this the definition of art, the act of conceiving and creating something.

Perhaps another one could be "anything that inspires and pleases the eye"???

Works for me!