Temple of Himself: Artistic Object Lesson

April 18, 2011 - PRLog -- Whenever he revisits something he once understood – a thought, a book, someone’s life – he finds that not only has the thing changed, but the terms upon which he understood the thing have themselves changed, or vanished, or lost their meaning. He no longer understands.

Moreover, he no longer understands the conditions upon which he once understood. They are as obscure and unfathomable as road signs in a strange alphabet. If those terms led him earlier to make art, he no longer understands it. It is meaningless now, a skin he once shed.

So he falls back upon what he trusts (he hopes) has never varied: himself.

“Himself” becomes a rock to which he clings, a home he returns to countless times, the sole image in his art, with variations yet in essence remaining invariable: the selfsame same self.

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