Living the Questions Now

Lauren Amalia Redding
4 min readFeb 2, 2020

The crucial difference between putting out artwork and allowing artwork to happen.

Lauren Amalia Redding, “Aries, Argonaut, Astronaut,” 2019–20, silverpoint, goldpoint & silverleaf on hand-gessoed panel

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now…

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