I am always amazed at how process appears in "clusters." The reason -- because process seeks relationship to something or someone - ideas cluster together to better help us make new connections. My friend Lisa dropped off a book she felt I MUST read. In The Gift, Lewis Hyde offers a theory of gift exchange and the language around the life of the artist. Art and artists share. A gift he says, is "something that must always move" 
- it must be passed on. Two economies exist in our culture - the market economy and the gift economy. Art originates in the latter and struggles in the former. Check it out. Not a light or playful read, but thoughtful in the most original way...
- it must be passed on. Two economies exist in our culture - the market economy and the gift economy. Art originates in the latter and struggles in the former. Check it out. Not a light or playful read, but thoughtful in the most original way..."If art acts as an agent of transformation then we may correctly speak of it as a gift." - The Gift, Lewis Hyde
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