Not to worry Michael, I respect william's words.
mando
On Jan 23, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Michael Brady wrote:
On Jan 23, 2009, at 10:46 AM, William Conger wrote:
We create symbols of the real world in order to gain greater
access to the relationship between ourselves and the world. Such
symbols are interchangeable and metaphorical. They enable us to
compare and contrast, to perceive one thing as if it were another,
to multiply our experiences and thus our capacities to cooperate
with reality. I think this is the same root for all edeavors,
whether scientific, speculative, or artistic. If so, then the
role of art is to gain access to reality. Sentimentality is a
shroud over reality that directs perception inward to assuage the
difficulty of assimilating the self to the objective world.
Sentimentality is the comforting blanket of infancy, a retreat to
a fantasy of the womb.
I think the best art mediates the self and reality. It offers a
metaphorical fusing of the self as if other, an objectification of
the self as a make-believe symbol of reality. It is a rebirth into
the world.
Pay attention, folks. This is good stuff.
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