Which, interestingly enough, an artist need not be mindful of doing, and in fact is better off forgetting about, the same way an ice skater who is able to relegate her thoughts to a kind of no man’s land, and allow her body to move according to muscle memory, as she is performing a routine, is more likely to bring off that routine than is the ice skater whose thoughts are too near at hand, too present to herself, as she attempts each axel or lutz.