Left and Right Brain
Once in a while I used to go to the blog GET VISUAL, run by David Brickman. David is a gifted photographer whom I know from Albany. The blog is always a great pleasure to read; it covers arts exhibits along the Hudson Valley, centered in Albany, but also often ventures all the way into New York City. I cannot fully describe my disappointment when I went there yesterday, discovering that GET VISUAL now exists as a mere archive. David says in his statement of Feb. 4:
“A month ago, on Jan. 5, I took a new full-time position that is completely different from my past careers. I am now a tax collector for the state of New York, a job that uses some of my native talents (such as the gift of gab), along with some of my recently learned skills (e.g. accounting), and serves a vital purpose in a difficult economy.”
With his new bread-winning job, though, David joins an illustrious crowd of creative minds split across the corpus callosum — the bridge connecting the two halves of the brain, one dedicated to the arts, the other to the more mundane but thoroughly analytical skills. There is Albert Einstein, who worked in the office of the Federal Office for Intellectual Property in Bern, as an examiner. (Well, he is the exception of the rule, except I think intuition which he needed to come up with the Special Theory of Relativity is also on the side of the arts.) Then there is Franz Kafka, who worked in the Worker’s Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia, to investigate claims of injuries of workers on the job. There are many others who struggle to keep their lives in balance since one half of the brain is always needed, it seems, to feed the other.
I wish David luck in his less visible life, but urge all readers of this new blog to read and re-read David’s long-running narration of art at its finest, by going to dbgetvisual.blogspot.com/.
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