Western culture sees art as some
separate thing from life..
i.e. we separate ourselves
into the seclusion of the
studio or the garret if you
are a poet and you make
art ABOUT life
but art tries to BE life with
my Lined paper
as I move through the
world with its shopping
lists I want art to fall
onto that page as I
move
the lined paper is
what I move around
with
it does not demand a
separation from the
now
it is the now
I don’t have to do studies
on it then move to the
unlined paper; to the
studio
the art is the life is the
lined paper
I heard on the radio once
that aboriginal culture
could not quite understand
why we separate music
from life
people play music while
moving about their life
‘they do not formally
Learn a musical instrument
and Thomas Moore said:
“about spirituality, art
and the everyday sacred…
in Care of the Soul
‘… and thus in a small but significant way can make the everyday sacred. This kind of spirituality, so ordinary and close to home, is especially nourishing to the soul. Without this lowly incorporation of the sacred into life, religion can become so far removed from the human situation as to be irrelevant. “
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