“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

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• Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
• Freedom is the possibility of isolation.
• In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it.
• In Woolf's To the Lighthouse, time sometimes stretches across pages during a single lunch, and sometimes ten years pass inside a parenthesis. Why is the time we live so out of step with clock time?
• The Russian formalists' idea of 'defamiliarization' (ostranenie): art makes the ordinary strange so we see it as if for the first time. Does habit really kill seeing?