Becoming.

     The Nature of Human Kind? Is revealed by our nature with the transient. The Symbol unlocks the potential of utility and creation. Of practicality and trust, creation. Trust yourself. You will know the nature of the transient. The leap will become a better version of yourself. You have all the tools you need to succeed in this. You have never let yourself down in the past.

    Knowing the new adds to your vocabulary. Swirl. Assimilation enriches the colours of language with which we paint.

     What art means in the moment - and what art means in the past. Take off your presuppositions and dip your toe in the new found waters of the evening sea. Without any concepts of what may be - only what was - we can emerge into  a new understanding of ourselves and everyone we meet. Casting off pre-judging - the aesthetic experience is allowed to enrichen our lives, as we go forward, every individual adds to my colour palette, and I embrace each and every one as a valued part of what I am to become as I wander. The discrimination and fear of the unknown is overcome by the words of Gadamer. And I go forward with conviction I never knew before, because I know more of the world. Any idea of stereotype - any idea of catagory, any label, is superfolous. There is only art and it's appreciation, for what it is, when it is, why it is - all of which bring a deeper understanding of myself.

     The Form of the Festival is liberated.

     * When I make art. I feel like I am eternal - take inspiration where you can get it.

     " On the contrary, we have to ask ourselves what it is that maintains the continuity of art and in what sense art represents an overcoming of time" (p46)

  

     An overcoming of time - and place taking what is "full", overcoming, power. Fulfilling time. Fulfilling being, a time to overcome - a time for power. A time and a place.......stick, or go. Celebrate! 

     Celebrate the known, or celebrate the new.

     How will the me of yesterday change the me of today? " It is a question, therfore, of allowing what is to be. But this "letting be" does not mean the repetition of something we already know. We let the past be for us as we are now, not by repeated experience of it, but through an encouter with it" (p49)

     The way we encounter the symbolic in art.....the old culture bringing meaning to the new.

     The Encounter

     Why is the transient (experience of art) familiar? Why when we make the leap - from the known - experience of our own culture - the known - why do we understand - Gadamer's idea of the transient, the "making of the new". Why do we know this? Understand it?

     Gadamer talks about the Symbol. And its two-way relationship, between the known culture of our past, and the culture we discover on our way. As we create our present from our past. Clearly the past is known - is permanent - works - functions. But when confronted with the new - what do we recognise? When creating our new ideals, what do we "know" in the process? 

     We embelish what we know further by re-examining this  <~~~~~>  even in an instance of complete formation of new idaels, something is recognised. Alienation is a contradiction because we must recognise the new in some form to make it permanently a part of our ( cultural ) past. Making the leap involves a certain amount of knowing - of familiarity - why? Art is uniquely human. This is taken further in Gadamer's concept of "The Festival"

     Where do we go? From here?

                                                  "Pure"

                                                   Pencil on card

                                                   16 x 27.5 cm

     It is my intention to find out. A constant reaching, nourishing the soul, growing in Play. Exploring. Art comes to us in a wave and our interpretation of it - dreams and rapture - are our own senses talking to us. We percieve freely when we are free to interpet - to follow the art as a true reflection of ourselves, what do we recognise? It is our striving. It is the action - to live - which reveals the unknown nature of the transient into the known ideal we can use tomorrow. Relevance emerges subconscoiusly? When we freely choose - to act - to engage with art. And to trust what the art speaks to us. Becoming

Joined

     If you listen you will hear. " We have to go up to the building and wander round it, both inside and out" (p45) An exploration, an exploration of the symbol. We are alll limited by our thoughts, by our interpretation of art. But sometimes we transcend....this happens when we engage with art. And when this happens - our limitations - our "contingent qualities" (p44) unlock a greater dimension - we have access to the "ideal". 

      "Each and every reading will inevitably offend us in a certain sense by virtue of its contingent qualities" (p44). What he means by this is that our limitations are just that. Limitations. They hamper, they restrict. Growth is denied. He goes on to say " The process by which we liberate ourselves from such contingencies " (by taking our thoughts and liberating ourselves, opening up the symbol, taking that step.) " our contingent thoughts become more " (p44)

          REACHING THE IDEAL

        OPENING THE SYMBOL

        LIBERATING THE CONSTITUENT PARTS OF THOUGHT

     The aesthetic experience is an opening flower. It depends upon how we open the symbol. We are all limited in this sense. We open only when we can. And it is this, Gadamer claims, is the degree to which we engage with the aethetic experience. With art. And this he claims is an ongoing proces.

 Roamimg.

     The art will go where it will, taking on the forms prescribed to it. Seperate from the individual but living inside him. In the wind. It is taken up where it is found - enigmatic - yet real. Ready to be incorprated into anyones world view. A ready made basis for all existence - human. Knowable to only one, inspirational to everyone

     Talking to someone is a lot like playing a game of tennis. Except we are both playing a different game, on a different court, hitting a differnt ball

     In the end all things meet up. They connect. "Unity in the work". We are that unity, our experience of every day life is that unity. The temporal nature of life is this unity. I am lead by the art but i am whole by it. How autonomous are we? How much are we influenced by the art itsself?. It is clearly our interpretation. We experience it as ourselves. 

     Transcendence. The meaning is ours. Is created by us, experienced by us, is fully ours but, like Dust (Philip Pullman) we experience. The trancendental nature of art. It's powerful nature, is a product of our manufacture, but when we experience art. What is the external nature of art? Gadamer would say it does not exist. But in another sense, the art is what unites us. The art will go where the art will go - we must follow.

     Only through art can the soul be nourished. The human element of it provides the spark sustained. Alone, the thing is theoretical, even the symbol. But with the arrival of Gadamer's "Festival" the symbol becomes alive. It has heat. Though we cannot agree upon what the Festival is, because it is completely different for everyone - the perspective or interpretation of the "Festival" is totally unique. It is undefinable. Yet when it is expressed - put out there - we give it legs. It is interpreted. The heat is felt and it becomes real in the sense that, this thing - Art - we cannot define - nor express in any meaningfull way - the concept - unexpressable - is taken by the other into his symbolic order and is alive. The human element - the Festival - HITS! The structure of which - can it be defined? Or only experienced? Live, Live for onesself

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     Intensity, a focusing of the Creative Spirit, elaberation on the symbolic, fired by the other, by the Festival. Leading, or to be lead. Life is what you make it.

     Quite literally, what we create is ourselves. We do not have complete control over this as the art leads you. Gadamer is so inspirational with his mix of intention - having a will to explore - and allowing the art to take you where it must.

     Stay posted for more....

       "Unconceptually, we fit into place"

      The world is not an objective thing. It is agreed upon by many different angles It always "is" for the viewer.