None of my writing is outstanding but it is me and my voice and thoughts. I write nearly every day, either through journalling, emailing critiques to my art students, art letter to collectors and art lovers, or describing my art for Facebook and Instagram and just recently on Substack. I used AI a couple of times to help with some writing and with a little back and forth it turned out pretty good. But I realized how easy it would be to give in and let AI do it. All the while losing the opportunity to slowly and gradually better my skills. And to miss the thoughtfulness and organizing of ideas which comes from putting the pen to paper. Preferably a pencil or fountain pen.
“Every blooded writer knows that in the act of writing, really writing, his body participates with what are very like voluptuous sensations.”
-Ortega y Gasset
I think Ortega takes writing a step further. To write on your own volition is an embodied creation; the deepest sense of feeling alive. Where the body and spirit come together.
Lovely. I really appreciate your focus on agency. I was a TA for a political science instructor that loved to focus on how structure forced people to act in certain ways. I found nothing more fun to show him how people with agency disrupted the structure all the time - for better and worse. To borrow from Victor Frankl, and push back on Max Weber, we ultimately have the agency to break the iron chains others shackle on us with the systems they construct.
None of my writing is outstanding but it is me and my voice and thoughts. I write nearly every day, either through journalling, emailing critiques to my art students, art letter to collectors and art lovers, or describing my art for Facebook and Instagram and just recently on Substack. I used AI a couple of times to help with some writing and with a little back and forth it turned out pretty good. But I realized how easy it would be to give in and let AI do it. All the while losing the opportunity to slowly and gradually better my skills. And to miss the thoughtfulness and organizing of ideas which comes from putting the pen to paper. Preferably a pencil or fountain pen.
I read this earlier this morning:
“Every blooded writer knows that in the act of writing, really writing, his body participates with what are very like voluptuous sensations.”
-Ortega y Gasset
I think Ortega takes writing a step further. To write on your own volition is an embodied creation; the deepest sense of feeling alive. Where the body and spirit come together.
Lovely. I really appreciate your focus on agency. I was a TA for a political science instructor that loved to focus on how structure forced people to act in certain ways. I found nothing more fun to show him how people with agency disrupted the structure all the time - for better and worse. To borrow from Victor Frankl, and push back on Max Weber, we ultimately have the agency to break the iron chains others shackle on us with the systems they construct.