| Name: | Michael Fallon, MFA, MAM |  |
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| Statement: | We moderns know how to research and create elaborate theoretical psychic raincoats, but we generally lack an ability to see the wonders of the world. Ancient cultures appreciated the wonders of the world and made up stories about them so that they could understand and hold onto them after they’d gone. For instance, the Mayans carefully recorded the changing arc that the sun inscribed in the sky throughout the year, forming calendars that were more accurate than the Europeans’ of the time; ancient Native American thinkers also observed that the sun "had the power to grow crops," a notion that Enlightenment-era New Worlders scoffed at. While modern science has produced wonders of technology and imagination, I often wonder--as a writer and an artist--if we are any better off for our ability to explain the facts of the universe and not the magic and beauty of it? | |
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| Recent Selected Publications: | "Where Have You Gone, Pablo Picasso? The World Turns Its Lonely Eyes To You" in mnartists.org. 29 September 2004.
"The Column: What Vincent Van Gogh Means to Us Today" "The Column: Where Do Artists Come From?" in mnartists.org. 26 October 2006. |
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