Moderately painful because this address was given at Williams College, but I came across this again and it's fantastically straightforward and inspiring.
Just like Richard Serra's work.
Take risks. Break. Invent tools. Form obsessions. Cut through the weight of your education. It's difficult to think without obsession. Repetition not rote.
Play, where there are no ends, only means. (I don't often think 'play' when I think Richard Serra)
Process takes precedence over results (!)
My concern is that experience by proxy is a poor substitute for the reality of the interactive space we inhabit. As a sculptor I believe that perception structures thought and that to see is to think and conversely to think is to see. The virtual reality of the media, be it television or internet, limits our perception in that it affects our sense of space. It immobilizes our ability to apprehend actual physical space. Don’t let the rhetoric of simulation steal away the immediacy of your experience. Keep it real, keep it in the moment
If not now, when?
Transcript available here.
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