Mind's Eye Re: "A wise man once said."

My best mark in art was bottom equal.  I share Don's view on eye evasion of the Hydra, though don't hold much with 'looks'.  Memory and imagination are linked and we get both wrong as part of some future thinking, a kind of fragmentation thingy.  We tend to like looking at representations of our own genes once reproductive circuits are engaged  Horizontal exercise brain chemistry more or less allows time travel in terms of what one can see.  I usually see art 'sober'.  A world that still had about the same number of people in it as when I was born might have seen beyond itself.  Much presented as 'pretty' (like newsrooms) makes me sick.  I have good memories of art galleries like playing with kids and their dog in the grounds outside.  Old firearms' officers like me tend to express the kill shot (taken or not) as 'a lovely view'.  My imagination is almost entirely non-visual.  Anything that breaks the gaze, like wheelchairs rolling across newsrooms to remind us what has been excluded or phrases like 'Absolut Vodka, absolute impotence' might break the trance.  My dog when he glances back laughing on a walk.

On Friday, 12 September 2014 17:43:35 UTC+1, facilitator wrote:

Interesting.  Art can have that effect, although for me personally, I am ambivalent to what it does for the viewer other than instruct the viewer to think beyond themselves.

On Friday, September 12, 2014 9:16:50 AM UTC-4, Molly wrote:

From my view, the artist and the art bring others to a more integrated, creative sense of self, transcendent of reason or logic.  Magic connotes the primitive aspects of man whereas for me, being led to my higher nature is an important aspect of beauty.  But the difference might just be semantic. 

On Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:20:51 PM UTC-4, facilitator wrote:

Sometimes it takes imagination to see beauty where others only see the ugly.  It is the ability to look beyond our physical sense and enter that magical world!

On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 10:57:22 AM UTC-4, facilitator wrote:

I had an opportunity recently to have some of my sayings dissected at an art venue.  (Some of you are aware I am an artist. Sculpture and the like.)  On some of these sculptures I put encryptions or quotations.  I thought I would give it a go here and have them open to rebuttal, critique, agreement etcetera.

Have at it!

"Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder but in the eye of the imaginative"  

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