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rebecca hooper's avatar

Really love how you relate embodied cognition to painting. I've spent a lot of time thinking about embodied cognition in the context of animal intelligence and perception, but never art - and yes! So much to chew on here! You might be interested in the work of Louise Barrett. Her book Beyond the Brain explores embodied cognition in humans and nonhumans and is (I think) an incredibly rich read.

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LauraH's avatar

My painter girlfriend who lived in New York, Susanna Heller, was quoted in an article, after navigating through some personal challenges, as saying I survive on the tip of my pencil

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