A Talk with Bianca Bosker: Appreciating Life and Creating a Life Worth Appreciating

“Paying attention to art helps us fight the reducing tendencies of our minds. We think we see like video cameras, objectively recording everything around us, but what’s actually happening is we have filters of expectation that dismiss, prioritize, and categorize all the raw data coming in, compressing our reality. Art helps us yank off the filters by introducing novel experiences and images that knock our brains off their axes and make our minds jump the curb.”

Read the interview here.

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