Forays into Directive/Evocative

The first class of the Directional/Evocational has come and gone. 

So bloody interesting to me. 

It’s not a hard concept to get your head around.

What’s fascinating is that once I start looking at reality though those lenses…it’s like a whole new wing of the library opened up.

Let me show you how.

Use this link to get to and read Neil Gaiman’s short story: “How to Talk to Girls at a Party”. 

BUT!!!!!!!

Before you read it, put that lens on that Neil is doing a completely evocative thing with this story.

It’s like listening to music.

The words are there.

The characters are there.

There is a narrative flow.

There are things that happen that lead to other things that happen and ….

There is a beginning, a middle and an end.

Try to experience your reading of the story as an evocative experience.

With his words, he is just striking keys on the piano of your experience.

Just feel it.

Most people can’t.

Most people try to “make sense” of it.

They try to fill in the gaps with meaning-making.

They try to “make sense” of it.

That’s a directional way of dancing, “He’s saying this to get me to go there, to feel this, to understand this.”

Try it from the evoked POV.

In our culture, it’s usually “not good enough” simply to be evoked.
To explain it is to make it you better.

As the weeks goin by with this class, pretty sure that I’ll be writing more about it.

I feel as if I, as a painter, have just seen one of Picasso’s paintings for the first time.

So many things open up in front of me. 

So many possibilities that weren’t before.