Art, definition three: Art is communication married to creation. You can create something for yourself, in your own universe. And you can make communication to others about things that already exist. And when you combine those two, and communicate something you have created, it is art. Of course anything totally newly created will be utterly unfamiliar, and so will not communicate well. What you do is to combine it with familiar elements to accomplish understanding. That then becomes the inroad to to the heart of the work. One way of doing it is to take something from the world in general, and make it your own. You decide how you would make it if you had made it, and then make it that way. Another way is to create something new, and then put it in familiar surroundings. Drill: Make a creation for yourself. Drill: Make a communication without creation. Drill: Make a creation combined with a communication.

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