Beyond First Impressions

“That’s art? It looks like a five year old made it!” This was a fellow Kilter-goer’s opinion on a series of abstract drawings. Had he looked closer, he would have seen the nearby text labeling the drawings as some of sculptor Mark di Suvero’s preliminary sketches. But because he glanced at the drawings and made a snap judgment, he both missed learning about an artist’s working process and scoffed at a fellow human who had put time and thought into his work.

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