Goodbye, My Beautiful City of Wishes - by Kristin Posehn

creative sensitivity and how to be a swifter feeler

In the making of art, we’re cultivating a ridiculous level of sensitivity. We perceive with nuance, then keep asking for more. Does every brushstroke of this painting register on our most intimate, razor-sharp capacities for awareness, such that we nearly swim in the consciousness of its painter, whose name we can’t pronounce? Then we step over to the sharing of art, and suddenly insane levels of sensitivity are a major drag. Though not actually a liability, as you might fear, because pain is exquisite information. When you show someone your work, and they do a five-second pause then mention…

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