Groundsite Image Gallery
Elevators 4, by James Farmer
Artist: Fine Arts, KU
Season: Fall
Medium: oil on panel
Height: 12.000"
Width: 12.000"
Keywords: Perry
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James Farmer Statement
I will allow another to speak for me:
“One’s very thoughts can be poems, even if unuttered…
“Consider two persons looking, say, at a meadow. One sees it for its size, its possible value, the use to which it might be put. He sees it, in short, only in terms of his own conditioned desires, rather as an animal would see it. The other, we can suppose, considers none of these things but is instead drawn to a tiny and insignificant flower at her feet and looks at it in a way that the other person is incapable of viewing it, in a way that no animal can view it. She looks at it creatively, not merely finding it meaningful, but investing it with meanings, by her own creative power. This is not the creation of an object, but it is creation just the same.”
— Richard Taylor, 1981