MindCasts

[ink_ling]

Working in customer service -- even in a library -- you come across so many daft brains and unresponsive eyes -- that you can fall into thinking the entire world has forgotten how to think an interesting, crooked line, forgotten how to do anything but use their cash-eye coordination. Depressing

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[ilexv]

My powers of discrimination have shrunk away too. As a loner caught up in details, the human types are not that critical to what I do, but I wish I could do better at seeing types of grasses etc. At least they already have names & I don't have to come up with them.

[ink_ling]

Yeah, it's the same -- probably worse -- for me with actual physical detail. My eye has gotten sloppier and it was definitely never sharp.

The very idea of having to draw something from an actual model used to actually panic me (as did having to match a pitch in music) because I knew I could never perceive the original fully or accurately.

Big surprise how, in the arts, I was drawn more to the abstract and expressionist!