decoding da vinci
Heuristic
A heuristic technique, or a heuristic (/hjʊəˈrɪstɪk/; Ancient Greek: εὑρίσκω, heurískō, ‘I find, discover’), is any approach to problem solving or self-discovery that employs a practical method that is not guaranteed to be optimal, perfect, or rational, but is nevertheless sufficient for reaching an immediate, short-term goal or approximation. Where finding an optimal solution is impossible or impractical, heuristic methods can be used to speed up the process of finding a satisfactory solution. Heuristics can be mental shortcuts that ease the cognitive load of making a decision.[1]:94[2]
I personally fell in love with the theater when I was in high school. I had a little taste before but never really lived anywhere long enough to get involved. It was not until I was in high school that I really had the opportunity to sit still and discover who I was.
I had learned, by experience, that it was pointless to to be anything other than what I was. This auto originality made me interesting and within that field of interest I had not only the opportunity but, to me, almost a duty to be interested. The theater, in a time before the internet, before online streaming, and blockbuster summers, was the window to the world. A portal to the past, the future, and the many different versions of now. The many different versions of me.
Acting, like singing and writing, allowed the artist to describe with words the direction of information and emotion and with that imbue meaning more directly. Dance, sculpture, painting and drawing are forms of art that use images and movement alone to communicate meaning. This, to me, is where the magic to all art lies. The subtext. It is there in the acted, beyond the words, but still in direct representation. In dance and the art of visual representation you are dealing with a pure subtext. That at some point you have to give wholly over to viewer for interpretation.
