Steve, Peter, et al et cetera-
Art is a distillation.
Art is a concentrate.
Art helps us see the truth without the distractions.
Been writing my artist statement for a big museum show (a group of
eight of us, I am not alone) next year, and am full of Thought on this
topic. So take this as you please.
I did not chime in to the fiction+expertise dialogues (and really
both were heading to the same arena) despite these topics being right
up my alley, due to work demands on my typing time.
But I don't personally accept that a thoughtful person can truly
justify a real difference between fiction and fact. I'll agree to a
gray scale, but not black and white.
We are all making this up as we go along, as our technology and
equipment changes, our societies evolve, our neurophysiology morphs
and adjusts.
I am reminded of a Scientific American mention, in their 50+100 years
ago from some time ago of an article around 1920 that stated that
there was no need to study physics any further, that all that could be
learned had been learned.
We humans are particularly solipsistic if not very careful.
And we can only generate fiction from what we call fact anyway.
How would we even notice if there were a black hole leaking
completely unrelated and non-existent ideas into our literary/etc
world? If it were to do so, if authors were to be tuning into it, we
wouldn't comprehend them. Look how challenging even basic concepts
are for us to all grasp and act upon: love, compassion, altruism,
sustainability. Anyone think we could even perceive, let alone
understand, something so alien that it was unconnected to our
'consensual reality'?
Even the really weird creepy stuff is only so because it's a known
contrast to what we have experienced.
Okay. Enough.
Good luck and god speed.
:)
Tory
On Oct 17, 2010, at 9:09 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Peter -
Well said...
and in a single short paragraph with a single eloquent quote...
- Steve
A’propos Ten Best Texts as fiction. I’m sure no one at Friam holds
to the techno-barbarian view that nothing valuable can be gained
from fiction. In my opinion the important human values can be
illuminated only by fiction. After all, the King James Bible
(1611) is about the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
When told that his work was “untrue”, Pablo* agreed, remarking:
“Art is a lie that helps us see the truth”.
This seems a valuable insight.
*Pablo Picasso (1887 – 1968): Sp., Fr. painter. Developed cubism
Peter Lissaman, Da Vinci Ventures
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