Unlike music, film, dance or performance, painting exists as a static, complete object in space. Its experience is primarily spatial rather than temporal—the viewer controls the duration and sequence of looking. However, some contemporary theorists argue that painting can possess a temporal dimension through: the visible trace of time in its making (gesture, layers, drying marks) the durational experience it demands from the viewer narrative implication within the image itself Still, in conventional classification, painting belongs to spatial arts, not time arts.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_art
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In an age of Google Maps, TikTok itineraries, and infinite travel reels, the old romantic idea of “getting lost” feels increasingly optional.Yet the deepest travel experiences still demand some degree of strangeness: languages you don’t speak, smells you can’t name, rules you don’t understand, moments when your phone is useless and your instincts must take over.That mild disorientation—the quiet panic and subsequent wonder—is often where real discovery hides. Comfort zones rarely produce stories worth telling.So yes, travel still needs strangeness. Not total chaos, but enough unknown to remind you that you’re a guest in the world, not its curator.https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/15/why-getting-lost-is-the-best-part-of-travel https://psyche.co/ideas/why-the-best-travel-experiences-require-a-sense-of-the-unfamiliar
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History is not always written by the victors—but they usually get the louder, longer-lasting version.Victors control official records, monuments, education, and media in the immediate aftermath. Losers' accounts are often suppressed, destroyed, or marginalized. Yet over time, suppressed voices resurface through archaeology, diaries, oral traditions, exiled writings, and later scholarship. Many "defeated" narratives eventually challenge or even replace the original victor’s story (e.g., Vietnam War in American consciousness, indigenous histories, post-colonial revisions).The phrase is more proverb than iron law: power shapes history, but truth has a stubborn habit of leaking through the cracks.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_is_written_by_the_victors https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30933718 https://www.historyextra.com/period/general-history/history-is-written-by-the-victors-myth-quote/
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