Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:11:41 -0500 (EST)
From: George Free <aw570-AT-freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Re: practice


	Though I try to do some artistic work (poetry and photography), 
my main involvement with the arts is as a "consumer." This I try to take 
very seriously as a "practice." In this regard, I am not at all 
interested in the approach of the "connoiseur" or, even, of the art 
historian. What I try to do is to take the lessons of the works in which 
I'm interested to heart, to try to live my life according to the 
perspective that they express. My main interest has been in the work of 
John Cage. Rather than make a fetish of his work, I have tried to listen 
to the sounds around me, to experience the world in the attentive and 
mindful fashion that his work evokes.
cheers,
George




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