- basically these games are a waste of time; there is no purpose, just spending time, nothing gets created, nothing meaningful gets added to life
- also these games he finds utterly boring, even more so when not all players have the same level and you are assumed to politely avoid completely crushing your opponent.
- worst are the games largely based on chance: rolling a dice and watching how lucky you get...basically no challenge to the brain and very annoying to lose without having influence on the result.
Well, in some occasions he can be convinced by others to play, and in most cases this is when his kids want to play. He understands that in such case it can be quality time spent together, but really enjoying it? No, not really (or actually 'really not'), he will almost see it as a personal sacrifice.
So, during these games he will - in his mind - try to think of more important and meaningful things:
- new ideas for art concepts
- which colours to take for the next layer of his newest artwork in progress
- reflect on the latest pages of a philosophical book he has read
- thinking back about moments of joy and excitement with his wife
- issues he faced at work last week
And then, being a bit distracted he sometimes discovers he is actually losing the game, for example to his son today playing chess.
That makes it even unbearable, and while fighting not to be upset, he desires to throw the chess pieces in the air, walk away and stop the game.
In an ultimate effort to control his anger he starts explaining his son that these games are no good, they add nothing.
And his son has seen this before, and actually he had seen it coming, so he just puts it out there ' this only seems an issue when you are losing'.
And actually Art will have to agree, indeed, it only happens when he loses.
And maybe this aspect of losing is a stronger element of why Art does not like to play games.
Maybe Art is deep down extremely competitive, and he can not deal with losing. And he even can't stand letting kids win....
Probably a good topic to develop into a new art work for Art.
Or would it also be a waste of time to make art about playing games... ;)
