Hello Surdada - though we've been on Discharge together for a while, don't think we've exchanged comments, so nice to meet you. I enjoy your work.
I would say explanations can be definitive. Science is full of them. With that in hand, predictions can be made; from which structures can be created and utilised to great effect. This, I think, is all good news. There is, of course, chaos all around - chaos and unpredictability. And, even a layman like me knows - via TV, films, radio etc. - that classical physics is only a limited view of the universe and only explains things so far. Yet, under normal atmospheric conditions, water boils at 100 degrees - every time. That's a completely sound, hermetic explanation of a process; the reliability of which helps the world. Just as more is chaotic than we generally realise, more is determined, in my view. As artists, it's routinely felt that we think we are free-spirits, and that we are maverick in our movements and in our views: a chaotic element. I argue we are in fact much more predictable than that. Further, I don't think that that is a bad thing. I personally have no problem - either ideologically or emotionally - with the idea of connections to pre-existing states of affairs, predictable/reified systems and processes, and to institutions of one kind or another. One accepts these conditions everyday. Thinking one is resisting them is like insisting that water boil at 99 degrees. Better, I think, to accept and work with the immutable things, and to investigate the gaps and inconsistencies which lie between them.
To lift your own analogy... Silence is meaningless without noise, and ditto in reverse. That's relativity. All is context-dependent, in one sense. But within that, solid ground exists. We walk upon it here as we do everywhere.
My english is bad, in relation to your words: of course. My problem is I wanto to see beyond the explanations, just a kind of stupid fanatic nonsense mysticism. But I really don´t mind.
Apologies Surdada - no intention to use English language against you. Your English is very good; certainly better than my Spanish. I'm just grateful you did the work with a non-native language, and that we can therefore come together here in words as well as images.
We share the same desire to attempt to 'see beyond', as you term it. I love Surrealism - it is my whole thing, really. My only point was that certain things are just factual, and unavoidable, non-negotiable; and that I like and accept that as a condition of life.
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Explanations can be interesting or attractive, sure, but not definitive.
The most reliable explanation: the silence.
But we like the noise, of course.
Hello Surdada - though we've been on Discharge together for a while, don't think we've exchanged comments, so nice to meet you. I enjoy your work.
I would say explanations can be definitive. Science is full of them. With that in hand, predictions can be made; from which structures can be created and utilised to great effect. This, I think, is all good news. There is, of course, chaos all around - chaos and unpredictability. And, even a layman like me knows - via TV, films, radio etc. - that classical physics is only a limited view of the universe and only explains things so far. Yet, under normal atmospheric conditions, water boils at 100 degrees - every time. That's a completely sound, hermetic explanation of a process; the reliability of which helps the world. Just as more is chaotic than we generally realise, more is determined, in my view. As artists, it's routinely felt that we think we are free-spirits, and that we are maverick in our movements and in our views: a chaotic element. I argue we are in fact much more predictable than that. Further, I don't think that that is a bad thing. I personally have no problem - either ideologically or emotionally - with the idea of connections to pre-existing states of affairs, predictable/reified systems and processes, and to institutions of one kind or another. One accepts these conditions everyday. Thinking one is resisting them is like insisting that water boil at 99 degrees. Better, I think, to accept and work with the immutable things, and to investigate the gaps and inconsistencies which lie between them.
To lift your own analogy... Silence is meaningless without noise, and ditto in reverse. That's relativity. All is context-dependent, in one sense. But within that, solid ground exists. We walk upon it here as we do everywhere.
We have to.
My english is bad, in relation to your words: of course.
My problem is
I wanto to see beyond the explanations, just a kind of stupid fanatic nonsense mysticism.
But I really don´t mind.
:)
Apologies Surdada - no intention to use English language against you. Your English is very good; certainly better than my Spanish. I'm just grateful you did the work with a non-native language, and that we can therefore come together here in words as well as images.
We share the same desire to attempt to 'see beyond', as you term it. I love Surrealism - it is my whole thing, really. My only point was that certain things are just factual, and unavoidable, non-negotiable; and that I like and accept that as a condition of life.
Great to chat & best wishes.
:)
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