The Job, rather the mission of the artist, no matter what medium or form of thought that it may come to take on is to ask, to challenge that which we, as a people, collectively and individually are marching onward towards some point of destiny that is mad and riddled with fates and fortunes that is beyond our own knowing.
In this manner of discourse of thought and the preoccupation of certain inquiries, the specifics of anyone of any one particular action, consequence and those particular point of view attitudes are of little to no concern. Yes they are pebbled points of consciousness that in time come to be their own sort of devil, but this is not that sort of inquiry.
It is those general attitudes and practices that are the matter and subject of inquiry. These are the 'Matter of Greater Consequence' because the specifics, those points and positions of individual perspective are exactly that, specific points of knowing and understanding where personal truth and identity are found and known. Such understanding and knowing alters the course of a society to a slight degree here and there.
It is the 'general attitudes' that set the course and compass of a people and that society that they collectively come to create as a whole. Those 'general attitudes', those hopes, fears and doubts that come to shape and forge angels of devils of things, as 'we' can only image and know to be comes temper that compass of conscience and will and heart.
That is the purpose, the method and the madness of art, 'To dare to question, to challenge Man and Society and those who would long to rule us in these hopes and fears- those who would seek to stifle and silence truth founded in reason rather fear!'
Above I posted 'Pennies and Dreams'. Our society, any society is a carnival mad with dreams of destiny seeking to 'Man Monoliths' where we come to proclaim our sense of greatness when in the end and in time it will crumble into ruin.
It, this world that we come to dream and create, is measured and weighed breath, sweat, tears and blood as we try to rise above some great and terrible fear. We struggle and strive like desperate ant trying to dry out of a half empty glass without trying drown in our own fears and hopes.
That is what 'Man' is spirit of thing born of hope and fear that knows and wields a great and terrible will and we as artists, patrons and keepers and tellers of tales... we are the Bards and Jesters that dare to have the audacity to ask, 'What is to become of Man and the world?! We are we bound!! What is 'Man' this terrible and wondrous creature who dreams visions as only a devil'd angel may come to know... to be? What is Man and what is to become of us?!
But that is what 'We' artists, poets and such spirited creatures do. 'We' dare to think, to ponder, to ask the unthinkable and the impossible.
Gavion E. Chandler~
'Man is his own devil.'
In this manner of discourse of thought and the preoccupation of certain inquiries, the specifics of anyone of any one particular action, consequence and those particular point of view attitudes are of little to no concern. Yes they are pebbled points of consciousness that in time come to be their own sort of devil, but this is not that sort of inquiry.
It is those general attitudes and practices that are the matter and subject of inquiry. These are the 'Matter of Greater Consequence' because the specifics, those points and positions of individual perspective are exactly that, specific points of knowing and understanding where personal truth and identity are found and known. Such understanding and knowing alters the course of a society to a slight degree here and there.
It is the 'general attitudes' that set the course and compass of a people and that society that they collectively come to create as a whole. Those 'general attitudes', those hopes, fears and doubts that come to shape and forge angels of devils of things, as 'we' can only image and know to be comes temper that compass of conscience and will and heart.
That is the purpose, the method and the madness of art, 'To dare to question, to challenge Man and Society and those who would long to rule us in these hopes and fears- those who would seek to stifle and silence truth founded in reason rather fear!'
Above I posted 'Pennies and Dreams'. Our society, any society is a carnival mad with dreams of destiny seeking to 'Man Monoliths' where we come to proclaim our sense of greatness when in the end and in time it will crumble into ruin.
It, this world that we come to dream and create, is measured and weighed breath, sweat, tears and blood as we try to rise above some great and terrible fear. We struggle and strive like desperate ant trying to dry out of a half empty glass without trying drown in our own fears and hopes.
That is what 'Man' is spirit of thing born of hope and fear that knows and wields a great and terrible will and we as artists, patrons and keepers and tellers of tales... we are the Bards and Jesters that dare to have the audacity to ask, 'What is to become of Man and the world?! We are we bound!! What is 'Man' this terrible and wondrous creature who dreams visions as only a devil'd angel may come to know... to be? What is Man and what is to become of us?!
But that is what 'We' artists, poets and such spirited creatures do. 'We' dare to think, to ponder, to ask the unthinkable and the impossible.
Gavion E. Chandler~
'Man is his own devil.'