1. To make sense of pain
2. To fathom the sources of beauty”
John Ruskin
One of the reasons I love poetry so much I think is that it brings things down to their essence. It oftentimes takes away the extraneous, the unnecessary, the fluff, the make up and the fancy dress and lets you look long and hard at the simplicity and the true nature of things.
These words do that for me a bit with art.
As we make we are so often trying to make sense of pain or darkness or troubling experiences. At other times we are trying to express the sheer joy and beauty of this world and this life. To investigate both sides and discover how they can be expressed and shared.
I am quite happy to think that in this case, things can be simplified into a binary of sorts. I know that there will be variations and modifications within these two categorisations, but again like poetry, they have revealed to me the essence and true nature of art.
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