The Reading

One thing that I have to say about this reading and the book in general is that I love the fact that some of the specific people that they put in here to talk about aren't artists in their day to day lives, well they don't call themselves artists anyway. Rick Hoblitt is a a Geologist, Martin Wilner is a pdychiatrist, and Masayoshi Nakano is an engineer. Each person that I read about stood out to me, but none of them stood out in the same way. With Rick Hoblitt it was his attention to detail and his determination to get down all of the details that he could. With Martin Wilner it was a line or two that talked about when he was in medical school he stopped making art because he thought that he didn't have the time but when he stopped his grades suffered and they only picked up when he started making art again. That was fascinating because I would've though it would've been the other way around. It made me question what about art could make it possible for this man to get better grades? Masayoshi Nakano never went to the same place twice unless he had a question about the place. Which to me is interesting because if I go or see something somewhere that I find interesting I want to keep going back to that one place over and over again. But if you do go to that one place only once maybe that makes those recolections of that time that much more precious and interesting and they will stay that way longer. Still I couldn't believe that he took all that time to make his 40 some journals and then he destroyed all but one. I can't see myself ever doing that. Everyone of the people can be considered in my opinion artists just off of their journals because they make really great journals. Before reading this book I never saw the importance in making and keeping a journal. A journal or sketchbook to me was just something that I drew in when I had an idea for art, was in an artistic mood, or was bored and had nothing else to do. This book is making me want to "journal" more and more just to see how I progress.

Laura