Lines of Inquiry
At the turn of the 20th century, German poet Rainer Maria Rilke exchanged letters with an amateur poet, Franz Kappus, sharing a sentiment that nicely frames the goals for an inquiry-based approach to producing creative work in IB Visual Arts. Rilke wrote to the young poet that one must “try to love the questions themselves,” and not to “search for the answers…because you would not be able to live them.” Instead,...