The artist is a person who is especially aware of the 
challenge and dangers of new environments 
presented to human sensibility. Whereas the 
ordinary person seeks security by numbing his 
perceptions against the impact of new experience, 
the artist delights in this novelty and instinctively 
creates situations that both reveal it and 
compensate for it. The artists studies the distortion 
of sensory life produced by new environmental 
programming and tends to create artistic situations 
that correct the sensory bias and derangement 
brought about by the new form. In social terms the 
artist can be regarded as a navigator who gives 
adequate compass bearings in spite of magnetic