On ‘issues’
I don’t understand why every day, people love to get
incensed. They scroll the doom & gloom to get their rise, as a way to avoid
looking inside. I find the current habit of political art a case in point.
Pointing the finger outwards & leaving the self unexplored, as if a propagandist
painting will have any effect. & if in the remote chance it does have an
effect, what kind of effect? Seemingly each work of art deals with single ‘issues’
of the day & what? an audience member sees a bit of propaganda to put on a
tshirt & preach to the choir at dinner parties? So what. At no point is the
inner person express in personal language. At no point is candour & honesty
in self reveal seen. Rather academic categories are used, as if people are
rational or can be rationalized. We’ve seen the killing fields of rationalism
over the centuries, because neurology aside people are irrational, regardless
of mappings of the brain. For me the job of art is to transform, uplift,
elevate, to enliven the spirit to confront our demons & realise that we share
much in common, if we are frank & that we are more important than newscast’s
videotape or lab experiments projecting ourselves as other.
Published & Copyright by Malachi Doyle 2024.
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