Dear Alison Croggon -
You wrote-
"Maybe cases of petering off are to do with an ossification of
consciousness. Or some kind of damage to do with the intense struggle of
the earlier work. Or just exhaustion. I don't know. But all gifts are
double edged."
Well, I'm glad you started with "maybe"....and I agree with "I don't know"
because neither do I. But I've always been sceptical about the processes of
making art being described as a "gift". What do you mean ? And only "double"
edged - why not "multifaceted" or somesuch, or anything else as abstract...?
Pam Brown
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