This is a FABULOUS post, Shagun. Re: Maya Lin, not only did she say no to the request she change her work, she said no to her university at the time taking the credit for her work! This is what I recall from the documentary about her achievement with the Vietnam Memorial. The institution was Yale.
This post cuts pinpoints what I feel is a common factor that cuts through the entertainment world, and not just art. It's a combination of calculated indifference to public opinion, endurance, and a form of shrewdness that allows you to spot the moment the tide is potentially turning in your favor to seize opportunities.
To sum up this beautiful articulation symbolically, it is akin to the saying:
"The last shall be first, and the first shall be last".
It shares the same resonance. In essence, this statement was not a moral lesson. It's a temporal law for mystics, explorers, inventors, artists, founders, pioneers, innovators, and architects, who are first in building, creating, or expressing a new world that had no prior language or precedent. They are first to experience themselves as "last" because there is no field yet to receive them. They were "last" momentarily because they arrived before the system existed. The first are last until the world catches up. Looking back and studying the phenomena, the common thread between each appears as strategy but from inside, this organic movement was always pointing to inevitability.
This is a FABULOUS post, Shagun. Re: Maya Lin, not only did she say no to the request she change her work, she said no to her university at the time taking the credit for her work! This is what I recall from the documentary about her achievement with the Vietnam Memorial. The institution was Yale.
This post cuts pinpoints what I feel is a common factor that cuts through the entertainment world, and not just art. It's a combination of calculated indifference to public opinion, endurance, and a form of shrewdness that allows you to spot the moment the tide is potentially turning in your favor to seize opportunities.
Thank you for the collaboration- delighted you like the work. I can’t even say how much I enjoyed reading it!
Fascinating and informative read that serves as inspiration as well. Thank you.
To sum up this beautiful articulation symbolically, it is akin to the saying:
"The last shall be first, and the first shall be last".
It shares the same resonance. In essence, this statement was not a moral lesson. It's a temporal law for mystics, explorers, inventors, artists, founders, pioneers, innovators, and architects, who are first in building, creating, or expressing a new world that had no prior language or precedent. They are first to experience themselves as "last" because there is no field yet to receive them. They were "last" momentarily because they arrived before the system existed. The first are last until the world catches up. Looking back and studying the phenomena, the common thread between each appears as strategy but from inside, this organic movement was always pointing to inevitability.
completely agree
Inspiring post! Thank you! 🙏
Eye opening.
another exceptional article (post?). so well researched and timely. at least for me. thank you for the work you do