what it's for
"There is something unique in ever genesis", Pablo d'Ors says. There is a catalyst. There is the force and propulsion that overcomes inertia. When the resting state of all that is resistant to change is overtaken by all that refuses to stay the same. It's the one moment that defies everything.
That's what art is. What it does. What it's always been.
But even that one moment isn't something that exists in isolation. Never disconnected from what happens next or what came before.
We are beings in transit, living in breezeways, and passages, and corridors. Making and remaking and reciprocating, all along the way.
Every step is inter-subjective. The Commons unlocked, unblocked, unlost, and unguarded. A communion. A shared space.
That's what art is. What it does. What it's always been.
Creation isn't something that comes from nothing. It isn't something that arrives from out of the blue. Genesis is what happens in the midst of things connecting and juxtaposed. In the clutter and the dregs. In things retrieved, repurposed, and reclaimed. It's when "we are called to be reborn from our [own] ashes", d'Ors says. When have no choice but "to reinvent ourselves". To begin again. To start anew. To build ourselves into something other, from the remnants of what we were before.
That's what art does. What it is. What it's always been. What it's for.
P.S. - ICAD Day 41-44
P.P.S. - I’ve been doing so much analog collage work lately, that I feel like I’ve unintentionally neglected my digital compositions. So here’s a digital/analog hybrid, just because.
Stains removed is very compelling!
I haven’t read Pablo d’Ors yet. Thank you for the suggestion. Your use of color in these pieces completes a circuit in my brain somehow…sorry I’m not able to describe it well. There’s something about the way that collage can demonstrate pieces of an idea coming together to make a new and surprising entity.