Art Instinct

Spiderweb anchored
To a tree, a bush, the ground
Centered spiral shines

From: tenthousandhaiku.com/tag/spider

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Dinesh ^club

Instincts, we tend to think, are automatic, unconscious patterns of behavior. The spiders’s web that glistens in the morning dew was dictated by a genetic code in the spider’s tiny brain. The web may be a lovely sight to our eyes, but its beauty is a mere by-product of a spider’s way of enjoying breakfast. From the standpoint of either the spider or the human observer, such pretty accidents of nature are a long way from how we normally regard works of art. ~ Page 1

3 years ago. Edited 22 months ago.

Dinesh ^club

. . . as Dutton (Denis) points out, “The spider’s web that glisters in the morning dew was dictated by a genetic code in the spider’s tiny brain. The web may be a lovely sight to our eyes, but its beauty is a mere by-product of a spider’s way of enjoying breakfast.” The web-spinning spider is a master-piece of evolution, but to count as art, a thing must be generated out of intent and not be the result of sheer instinct, which just happens to have produced -- to an observing human -- a coincidentally pleasing outcome. . . Page 150

22 months ago. Edited 22 months ago.

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