Brucennial Catalog Entry 02/07/10
by Karl N. David
I think everyone wants to have their ideas acknowledged whether they are tried out or not. However, after a concept is acted upon, its authorship becomes most appealing when the results are satisfactory. Often an idea that turns out badly can be blamed on the other factors involved that were not previously considered.
Where mis-education is defined as a failure to follow accepted, logical practice, an opportunity is presented to allow undertaking any emotionally-motivated process. Without the constraints of epistemological and moralistic concerns, unconsciousness of allegories, archetypes and analogies can benefit the exposure of one’s true soul and its vulnerabilities.
Personally, I have endless ideas that I keep forgetting and re-inventing effortlessly.Those that get done have been diligently thought through because it takes me forever to get started; because I know that those unknown factors that will likely arise, once the work is in progress, will greatly determine its outcome. My despair comes from the realization that the execution part may challenge the value of its own basic concept, when the efforts entailed mediate the conclusion to validate a different, unforeseen idea.
As if engaging in a criminal activity, the artist is well served by holding an anti-social point of view. Because drama requires conflict, mis-education provides the raw material for comedy, as well as for tragedy.
Certainty itself is of more value to the creative process than are the assumptions that would support it. It is self-defeating to doubt something that one wants to accomplish before it becomes unarguably indefensible.
In fact, other than for purposes of academic practice, education merely provides the template to be avoided in the conduct of creative pursuits. Being correct is contingent upon the status quo remaining unchanged. When random accident intervenes, luck may articulate a new best-case scenario, in addition to altering one’s perspective.
Education is like agricultural cultivation in proscribed fields and mis-education is like foraging and gathering of produce where and when available. It’s your choice.
