Vision
The first card referred to Vision. It was from The Free Ranger, who had been working on ideas about how we see. It showed an image of an open book with circular maps and drawings and a magnifying loupe. On the back he had scrawled,
"Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes things visible".
Paul Klee 1879-1940 Swiss Painter.
Free Ranger felt that a great work of art tries to distill essential qualities from what we perceive as reality, namely to seek new knowledge about reality. He felt vision was an exercise in competence gained by repetition. If we are to seek greater knowledge from what we think reality is comprised of, (which is acquired by following familiar paths over and over again), then we must constantly be looking for opportunities in that reality. So if one wants to find pure vision, one has to leave the familiar to find the extraordinary in the ordinary. In doing so, one can find lifes Moxie.
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Vision
oil on canvas mounted on board 16 1/2 X 20 1/4
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