SYSTEMS FOR CHANGE

As playwright Tennessee Williams said:

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks

Words are powerful. Images are powerful.

In this article let’s look at some language, systems and methods you can use to communicate your vision and advance your own work and the work of the people around you.

In the first of these Substack articles, I wrote about the Infrathin difference, the tiniest shift that can make a big difference.

Here is what I said:

INFRATHIN

My guess is that you are looking for a key that will lift your work from good to fantastic. French artist and philosopher Marcel Duchamp called this shift the infrathin difference. For Duchamp, infrathin (in French inframince) is as tiny as the contrast between two identical chairs — an empty chair next to a chair just after a person has stood up and walked away from it.

The chairs look pretty much the same — the difference is that one of them holds the heat of someone’s body while the other is cold and lifeless.

In the world of acting, t…