January 15, 2008...12:51 pm
Forty Ninth Question of the Day.
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(Nina’s painting called “Talking To Trees”.)
This question is sort of the essence of the Full Body Transplant experience. Art is often seen as a way of expressing yourself. If that “expressing” is defined as “squeezing something out”, then we have a mystery.
What is the self that is expressed through art?
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January 15, 2008 at 3:23 pm
You have a talented wife, although I’m sure you don’t need to hear it from me.
If the self displayed in art is “squeezed out”, I would consider it to be a little false.
But that begs the question (in a literal sense) of whether or not expression is accurate representation… or ideal projection?
…to which the answer is probably both.
I think limiting the expression taking place in art to self expression is inaccurate… incomplete.
January 15, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I would say this. Every work of art demands a set of decisions. Whatever decisions the artist makes, the self is expressed in the process.
Of course, the “self portrait” multiplies the equation exponentially.
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