Art responding….making art in response to other art!

Often, when i see great art, i make art responses as a way of listening more deeply to it, and allowing myself to be transformed by the painting. To I-thou with one’s art in order to engage my own imagination in encountering the art in love. This is one way to be transformed by one another’s art.

Art response is my favorite way of knowing. Art is epistemology for me. Or at least one way encounter more deeply-with more of myself.

Here’s a poem i wrote in response to Mark Rothko’s painting called “Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea”! Regardless, making art in response to art, helps me interpret and listen well to other-to encounter rather than use or consume.

Here’s an art response, to that tender painting I put up earlier. Getting back into art responding! Fun! Next time you see art, make art in response—it opens a deeper dialogue! Even if the poems not good, it takes you into a deeper encounter, and more understanding of the piece, i think. Art challenge, your way today!

My art response to Rothko’s painting:

There is sea, sky, and
the unseen swirl between
two worlds,
two lovers…on an edge
between- that
is,
us
all.
That
kingdom
is always
in our midst;
but too
rarely
seen.
much less
lived in.
For only
Love
can live
there-
by that
Sea.