(I hadn't even started contemplating the work of mailing the cards to the buyers).
That's why it's so bewitching to contemplate the work of hands that have special skills: a teacher communicating in sign language with the deaf, a dentist gently manipulating a drill, a surgeon repairing a shattered finger, a puppeteer bringing a character to life onstage.
One wonders how to contemplate the work of artists whose culture has often been marginalized when the work itself keeps appearing in unexplored margins.
Contemplating the works of these singularly inventive people is oddly tantalizing: the pieces make you feel close to the creative, problem-solving center of the mind.
After a few hours spent contemplating the works of gifted but obscure artists with names like Zé Caboclo, or Joe Hillbilly, we found it hard to disagree.
Individual works have "scale" buttons under them that you can click to produce a little gray doppelganger of a real-world fairgoer (in silhouette with arms crossed, as if contemplating the work) to get an idea of its size.
Being black and being gay, and an aesthete as well, launched Ligon — and us, vicariously, as we contemplate the work — into a crossfire of allurements and compunctions.
Anyone interested in crossing the ever-narrowing divide between High and Low culture ought to contemplate the work and troubled career of Bernard Krigstein (1919-90), a postwar comic-book illustrator who had the privilege and the misfortune of being an Artist with a capital "A" working in an Art Form that considered itself only a Business.
Contemplating the work's echt Viennese title, I wondered which of the sections was supposed to be which.
With a speed that would have seemed preposterous to contemplate a decade ago, the work of collecting, purifying and digitizing billions of discrete bits of chemical information will be finished in less than 18 months, providing a rich resource for scientists to analyze for decades to come.
