tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298431477138846862.post3358559801145429777..comments2024-02-15T05:19:39.489-05:00Comments on Your ability to write is always Present. : What Totally Untrained Artists Might Have to Show Us About Writing BlocksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298431477138846862.post-74934291384776407282013-10-23T17:30:42.827-04:002013-10-23T17:30:42.827-04:00Yes. I see what you're saying now. I did not ...Yes. I see what you're saying now. I did not read carefully enough your "Unlike most people when creating..." paragraph. I absolutely agree.m.a. robinsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298431477138846862.post-79890675846333514262013-10-23T17:19:13.254-04:002013-10-23T17:19:13.254-04:00The work and the approach of the naive artist are ...The work and the approach of the naive artist are not perfect--not even perfectly innocent. Many of us have a bit of "unschooling" inside us, a desire to resist instruction and teacherly judgement. (Here I think of Robert Brooke's marvelous work with underlife.) I think instead that there is real value in exploring some of the strategies of the unschooled: chiefly, gaining distance from the teacher-in-the-head. Alexandria Peary, MFA, MFA, PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05586896167663351299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298431477138846862.post-45209646854994387132013-10-23T17:00:25.875-04:002013-10-23T17:00:25.875-04:00I am also a big fan of Ueland, and I like what you...I am also a big fan of Ueland, and I like what you say about the importance of beginner's mind. It felt to me, though, that you were setting up an opposition or dichotomy that I see as a tension or paradox. The Buddhist monks meditate and study and practice applying a lifetime of discipline to achieve their spontaneity; you teach people how to be "untaught." As people who are trained, is the goal to untrain ourselves--which would be a denial of our actual experiential selves? I have no answer to this dilemma, but I do think it goes beyond envying the untaught as that runs the risk of setting up another "perfection" (the perfect innocent) that we can no longer achieve. I don't mean to disagree with you, only to complicate the opposition.m.a. robinsonnoreply@blogger.com