True luxury is taking the time to explore
I am listening to artist Elisabetta Di Maggio on YouTube (Awaiting Venice Biennale). She is working in her studio on a huge lotus flower, painstakingly cutting its leaves with a precision scalpel, revealing the veins in the process. She says she is not inventing anything new — she is just taking from nature. And that anybody can. She adds:
Because I think in the end, true luxury is taking the time to explore and to look at things closely. Because they can tell us a lot. Especially nature.
This reminds me of how Kentridge thinks about taking time to play with pieces of paper and see what emerges:
What I do do is allow myself the luxury of saying, "This is how I’m going to spend months and years of my life—arranging stupid pieces of paper and then saying,‘Ah! A horse,’ every day, as if it’s something fresh."
