Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Concept Communist?

Lewis Hyde
...There's a long tradition in America as imagining it as a solitary genius. But there's a shadow tradition in America of understanding that creativity has a collective portion as well. So part of my work is bringing that tradition out of the shadows and sort of showing how creativity can be seen as a collective mode.

For those of you who don't know his writing, Lewis Hyde may be just the sage you've been looking for. Here's a good interview with him from 2009 that appeared in Style Weekly. During the lecture he gave at the Grace Street Theatre in the same year he showed a number of images he had shot in Japan of aging trees that looked like this:


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