While I try to measure reality through release
and restraint or risk and reward, there is this other one idea I have for
measuring art approaches. As I flirt with this three-lettered abbreviation, I
call it QNT and QLT as for Quantitative and Qualitative. Also, it’s unfortunate
as I couldn’t have them belonging to the select R&R group.
This seems to be a way to measure my skills.
Quantitative efforts are those that are technical and impressively detailed.
Qualitative are harder to achieve, as you can’t convey details and have to
master the few strokes you have. You have to convey more information in lesser
details.
It seems that to a certain period of our life
we would try getting our skills to reach the farthest limit, but then, as we
reach the top, we start getting less worried about it. I think we start being
concerned about much simpler things. It would be the change from QNT to QLT.
But I didn’t make this idea of quantitative and
qualitative approaches, it’s a Worldly Teaching in its purest form. This is my
chance to be honest and give due credits to the one I learned the concept from.
It’s the opening introduction of Moebius’ “Is man good?”, when he states how in
this work he opted for the challenge of keeping it simple and still making his
art have this dense quintessence to it.
