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02292_Field_MOAA T11.txt
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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