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Slowcore Quote of the Day
"To celebrate slowness is not to invite retreat to some Arcadian setting of languorous times past. Slowness is no unqualified good, nor is speed necessarily bad: I want a responsive Internet connection as much as you do. Nor do I propose that beholders simply hunker down and "focus." That, ironically, proves to be a recipe for fidgeting. Had you assigned me to look at Manet's Young Lady, even for an hour, I wouldn't have lasted. Rather than coercion, slow art must be about finding pleasure. Nor will any slowness do. On the contrary, slowness must be earned, must repay the time it asks of us. Can the work solicit our attention without resorting to bells and whistles that undermine the effect?"
~ Arden Reed
From "Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell" (2017), p. 14 1 reply
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