| Book 2 #40 12/29/00
4:38:40 PM
[The soul is]
something that survives
by reinventing itself,
inhabiting a physical
body
in order to penetrate
the twists and turns
of the mind
and to test the limits
of endurance.
solitary suffering takes
on universal value,
[for this reason] ancient
objects and rituals
keep cropping up in
the imagination of artists
[and] continue [to exfoliate]
into this artificial visual world.
Along the way,
there are digressions
reflecting greater self-involvement.
things that are indecent
and unspeakable
and best forgotten altogether.
[and] risk becoming
excessively “figurative”.
it often seems to fail
to rise above
merely celebrating the
popular forms of imagery
from which it borrows.
A traumatic experience
no doubt,
This presents a problem
for the critic,
the supreme entity who
determines what is good and what is evil,
As with so many on both
the left and right,
the notion that there
is a direct, empathic,
almost mystic interaction
between
form, color and the
inner self,
symbols of the absolute,
forms [that] extend
beyond the edges [of consciousness]
By evidencing and expanding,
to move away from dry
concentration
in favor of a more mobile,
emotive setting.
a fusion of all artistic
techniques,
containing the tiniest
of human tragedies
born in someone else’s
head,
interested in everything
that happens
so I try to listen [but]
I cannot listen to it
all.
sources:
http://www.temaceleste.com/eng/artfeatures.asp?ID=34
http://www.reason.com/0010/fe.td.angry.html
http://www.temaceleste.com/eng/artreviews.asp?ID=148
http://www.temaceleste.com/eng/artreviews.asp?ID=173
http://www.temaceleste.com/eng/artartlife.asp?ID=3
http://www.temaceleste.com/eng/artlife.asp
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