Medium: Mixed
Dimensions: Variable
In today's environment, we are coping with transition from an industrial world to a post-industrial, electronic world. Transition is a form of communication that communicates difference. It is a fight for relevance and perhaps even towards shaping an identity. Transitions involve human complexities and are often exemplified by the behaviours of mystics, schizophrenics and artists. An artist's quest for difference is in fact a quest for integration. Some say it is supposed to promote a political agenda, or to be critical and rebellious, or even to transcend the social and political context in which it was made. Arts, for me, is a right-brain activity. It aims to integrate the unconscious and conscious processes, sometimes saving people by providing an experience of beauty. Style is a means to attract and sometimes elicit memories (from new insights into reality to the hypocrisies of the social order). Aesthetics are incidental to underlying expression.
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