Monday, March 31, 2025
Embracing Uncertainty: what we can all learn from how artists thrive in an unpredictable world
theconversation.com: In a recent interview, the 91-year-old Trinidadian artist John Lyons described painting as “an adventure in creative uncertainty. It is a way of existing in a world we still know very little about.”
A similar perspective forms the central theme of entrepreneur Margaret Hefferman’s latest book, Embracing Uncertainty. This is a spiritual successor to her previous book, Uncharted, which portrayed uncertainty as an inevitable aspect of modern life that should be embraced rather than controlled.
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Obviously, we all know that the world around us is a scary one, especially for people in the arts and humanities. Even in the sciences, where something so “lucrative” is being defunded. It’s actually insane. This article is a good one to read right now, and I’m sure the timing was intentional. It’s really interesting to hear their reasons as to why the arts are crucial to the development of society. Within K-12 (at least public school), the arts aren't held to that high of a status. Its importance is often questioned and viewed as a creative outlet for students to fill their time with. What people are failing to understand, including me before devoting my higher education to pursuing a BFA is that it is so much more than a time filler. It’s the act of trying to solve and give answers to questions, like science. So much of history is documented and created by art, since it's something created in a time and place.
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