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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
star rating may change upon further reflection...
I've been recently brooding over the question: do people have an intense love experience that turns them into an artist, or do artists tend to transform an 'ordinary' love into an intense one? And while this book didn't completely flush out the answer for me, it did provide new ideas and rabbit holes to dive into.
While I don't personally relate to Tree in her lovesickness, I found beauty in the attention she pays to her beloved and the time taken to articulate the inarticulable. I typically wouldn't love a work that is so meandering in nature and leaves me with so many questions; with this, it seemed to mirror the confusion of unrequited-ness and provided more empathy to the situation.
Will most likely force someone in my life to read this so I can sift out my thoughts more.
I've been recently brooding over the question: do people have an intense love experience that turns them into an artist, or do artists tend to transform an 'ordinary' love into an intense one? And while this book didn't completely flush out the answer for me, it did provide new ideas and rabbit holes to dive into.
While I don't personally relate to Tree in her lovesickness, I found beauty in the attention she pays to her beloved and the time taken to articulate the inarticulable. I typically wouldn't love a work that is so meandering in nature and leaves me with so many questions; with this, it seemed to mirror the confusion of unrequited-ness and provided more empathy to the situation.
Will most likely force someone in my life to read this so I can sift out my thoughts more.
I really loved this book. Tree's journey through loving and not being loved back the same way, yet somehow moving into a different kind of relationship really resonated with me. Her story helped me process feelings of my own.
Elseship considers many different kinds of love and digs for the words to describe them, a mighty and admirable effort, and I loved it for that. It gets lost in the weeds of its own wordy analysis at points, as though explaining every felt thing perfectly will make it count more, but more often than not it produces great beauty on the page. As somebody doing his own exploration of what love has meant and does and could mean, I appreciated hearing from an artist doing their own searching and found flickers of a kindred spirit here. The book itself is part graphic design piece comparable to McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage and Berger's Ways of Seeing, which does wonders for its heartfelt content. It's tricky when words aren't enough, and in her collage and other visual creations, Abraham does her damnedest to catch the feeling when they fail.
Really wanted to like this but it felt like it was trying too hard to write in a unique way and to sound deep rather than (for me personally) finding it to actually resonate or hit on human emotion. By the end I had to wrap up quick as I was getting irritated by the author at that point. That being said it had an interesting concept and I think there's not exactly a book that hits on the similar myriad of topics that would be comprable.
this book made me feel seen in ways i didn't believe possible and brought me so much curiosity and optimism. not what i was expecting but truly a beautiful read.
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
reflective