{"id":6848,"date":"2025-06-18T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:58:58","slug":"the-start-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2025\/06\/the-start-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Start of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wonder ay beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder what a thought or experience means<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder if I am capable of making the idea I have into a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wonder in combination with action is how art happens. I can achieve wonder as a consumer of art. The internalized wonder will change me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the action, though\u2014the trying\u2014that births the art. And changes who I am. I want the change, I want to experience new ideas and new thoughts. I reach for it. I would say The Algorithm is pitched to provide interesting but not too challenging packages of thoughts to as much of the human race as possible. I pursue it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An it\u2019s not enough. I want to get my hands in it and make my own. That means stepping off the conveyor belt of bite sized mind snacks. I am hungry for more than a snack. Can I make something satisfying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can I make anything worthwhile? I\u2019ve got this idea. When I start putting into some form\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Words?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictures?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How big is my idea? Maybe it\u2019s too big for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The art of creation or creation of art causes a ripple, a current that pulls the artist into realization<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Realization of the art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Realization that the art will not match the vision. My idea is far greater than what I can create. I push myself to do a better job. To get better at what what it\u2019s going to take to make this art that haunts me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to be better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creating art gives me a place to begin on being a more skilled, disciplined, compassion and wiser person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want it, and it is hard. People say, \u201cdon\u2019t be so hard on yourself!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It sounds like compassion, and sometimes it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I might need the rest so I can keep going. If I don\u2019t give up there\u2019s still a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder ay beauty. I wonder what a thought or experience means I wonder if I am capable of making the idea I have into a reality. Wonder in combination with action is how art happens. I can achieve wonder &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2025\/06\/the-start-of-art\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6849,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions\/6849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}