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Where does that kernel of inspiration come from? Does it hit you
when you are in the shower or when you are driving on the turnpike?
Wherever it takes hold of you, it marks the beginning of the process of
making a piece of art. Some artists agonize step-by-step in the creation
process. For some people the work fl ows seamlessly from an inner
fountain of inspiration.
There is an endless array of possible starting points. The ah-ha
moment can be when you look at the texture of an old wall with
peeling paint, the detail contained on a moth’s wing, or the sweep of
the landscape contours on a hillside. As artists, we can be surprised by
almost anything as we explore our world. Anything and everything is
at our disposal as possible elements for inspiration. |
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The School of Doubt conducts a parallel philological and philosophical examination
of Cicero’s Academica, a work on Hellenistic epistemology written in
the first half of 45 bce. The treatise has a unique history, insofar as fragments
of two different versions are extant: the second of a two-volume first edition,
a dialogue... |
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