examples which happen on our every day. When I am reading how tooth brushing and elbows moving examples, I am inclined to lift my elbows and look at myself tooth brushing in the mirror and watch carefully about my own steps and actions in daily lives in order to find the connection between art and lives. I also like the detailed description of development of process the author watching toothbrush from actions to smell. The more careful the author watch tooth brushing, the more easier to find more related information. I also like the author explain the connection between art and lives by illustrating the long history of art in the West in the Hellenistic period, ranging from the body to environment.
However, I think examples similar to tooth brushing are not enough in the article. How can readers be persuaded the conception of art relating to lives only through one example. I think the author need to describe the how walking, talking, stretching and other actions imply the art.
The author describes how he developing from a very tactile person to a perceived person to the around environment. I like he uses the experience in the flat desert, nothing happen and a good place to reflect. In addition, I like the way he proves his improvement. He goes back to places where he went before and experience the same places from totally different perspectives and have different feelings. When he addresses how people instill feelings to art and express the art, those are questions I really want to ask, and I am satisfied answers the article are given, like Micael Heizer taking situations in the form of photomurals and technologies applied in several desert sites and alter them into art. Those information activates my curiosity and makes me want to read and learn more.
What I confuse is why the author talking about he sells the studio, sending art pieces back to artists and whether loosing art identity. The comparison between the way he acquire feelings from the nature and the way Irwin express his ideas on his artworks. To be blunt, Irwin producing such amazing work by seldom touching the nature is amazing, but what the purpose of talking about it here. I think it doesn't make sense to the following paragraphs he talks about.
I am obsessed with the sentence, "If we could conduct our lives with the kind of openness that sometimes comes with proximity to death", which gives me a vivid situation of flight accident example and reminds me what I will act and what I will think about at the edge of death. In the article, Mr. Saunders is the author many people admire because he can induce ineffable feelings into his short stories. Even though we read his stories over and over again, there is still like a gap between the way we understand and the feeling he wants to express. In the article, I like he talks about the death topic, which is mysterious and interesting, like the concept of humanist verities the author mentioned, how could we predict things which are going to happen in the future after we died. Everything in the universe is intriguing and kind of scared. I am curious about exploring it but I am also afraid to find out what I do not want to see.
One thing I am really confused is about why the author describes so many about how much different he and Mr. Saunders from others in the restaurant, and why he tells about the death of his friends. Are there some connections between death of his friends and the a small topic of death in the article. When the author highlights how brilliant Mr. Saunders's short stories from perspectives of many famous people, I can feel his surprising achievements but I want to know about how he composes his stories, like giving some examples about his stories. And in the article, the author mentions "He writes like something of a saint", I think it compliments too far.
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