Imbued

Check out this video of John Mayer's guitar work first: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4ruic_HgQ6U and, if you think art is a learned thing after years and years of experience, watch this: http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/88017/detail/

The making of art, especially that component with which we are most familiar, perhaps minimally and only in a 'popular' sense, we call 'performance' -- but, still within this context, it is 'art' by my definition.

True art is not so much about having exceptional physical ability -- well, of course there is dance and acting -- but, instead, timing. 'Timing' is the essence.

Art in all its incarnations is about timing, in other words, choices. As an artist you make decisions in an endless stream, one decision upon another, culminating in the best conglomerate (it's much more subtle than that in reality)). And, within this process, beauty ‘becomes’ -- that 'becoming' is something with which we are all familiar: the pleasant stroking of our senses, a 'stroking', struggling to reach an orgasmic level, yeah, just like sex, or individualistically, masturbation -- we've all done it -- that's art.

What John Mayer and the eight year old in the video share, and are doing, seemingly 'mechanically', but beautiful nevertheless, is something pretty much any accomplished flat and five-finger picker of a stringed instrument can do, and, step-by-step, emulate. The difference? The personal choices regarding timing, and then, of course, the overlay of the lyrics (that's what George Martin, for instance, did so well). It comes with the territory, you are born with it, or not.

The artist here is manipulating 'time' to conform to his personal sense of movement, that is, his personal ’time’, imbued within his own, unique, DNA, and he is sharing!

And, that, that is art -- ultimately, it is the manipulation of time.

So there, we are masters of our realm ... from birth.

R. H. Nigl http://www.exoptica.com/nigl/nigl.html