Ways of seeing

What is useful is knowing an artist's journey and what led him to work in a particular way, or shaped his ideas

But what does it mean?" I hear that question all the time in relation to art. I'm tempted to reply that I don't know, but that would be a conversation-killer in a country where questions around art are few and far in between. So I take great pains to share my perspective about an artist or a work, often going into considerable detail as a way of underlining that there can be no singular way of looking at it. Or that a work of art can communicate totally different things to different people. A colleague and I differ about my