The Art of Model Picking

Morning Thoughts #288

Do not take to heart judgments that come from too close at hand. What good is a surveyor who lacks all height and distance?

These judgments, mind you, are not necessarily directed at you, but at the world at large. Crowded by those to whom you are unknown, they, in asking the world to be different, are really only trying to change, or create, your opinion on the matter - that you may be led to believe the same. From there, a sterile union of collectivity, but no community, ensues.

Consider this image: a circle of figure painters who never look beyond the person ahead of them for inspiration as a model. Taken as a whole, the character of the loop never changes, though it is always shifting.