Making Art

 

Green talked about the message behind King Lear and how audiences do not expect to feel safe from the message of despair. I realized that in coding for safe space, I don’t really include the message as part of the safety. (I’m sure I did in original codes on the Carapace study.) I wasn’t sure what to do with the King Lear comments at first. But I think they can fit where I do consider message, and also in thinking about how the audience engages with the performance.  

By William Dyce - Art UK: entry king-lear-and-the-fool-in-the-storm-210013, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=498271 

Green says that telling a story not only helps the teller process it, but can also lead to detachment from the experience. It “kills the experience” or “freezes it.” Is this good for the storyteller? 

 

As Green talks about transforming harrowing stories into art, I’m thinking about one of the story types I often hear, which I call “I found beauty in tragedy.” It seems to me that if the storyteller is transforming a difficult story into art, that in itself is creating beauty from tragedy.