Gehry's Eyes....

"You know, whenever I go to a museum I fall in love with something - Botticelli's Primavera, for example - but each time I see it differently from the last time. Today I would look at the fabrics. And I would see it architecturally, whereas I never saw it that way before. When I drive I'm listening to Proust now. I read Proust thirty years ago. I slogged through it; I wasn't ready. Now I just go nuts. I play it over and over...I'm ready to hear it. I respond to where I am and what I'm doing at the time." -Frank Gehry

I used to say the same thing about the music of Gustav Holst. Well, I always loved it - but I hear new lines and new phrases every time I play it. Usually related to what I have been doing musically lately, playing a new instrument, focusing on bass lines, learning the words to the folk songs.

I just finished Gehry Talks: Architecture + Process. Very similar thoughts to the film Sketches of Frank Gehry. And a great glimpse of artistic process, I subject I love to examine incessantly.

In the film, Gehry's psychiatrist says that most people come to him to help them cope with the day-to-day problems of the world, but the artists come to him asking how to change it. I guess that's the definition of the "artist mentality"?