I’ve been busy writing music for Bionaut’s next show in New York. I haven’t had time to blog. Here’s another pearl for your string…
It is important for me to physically interact with my art. For many years I did the day to day work of physical art, moving stacks of large rather heavy breakable framed photographs from one side of a room to the other and the like, and as I’ve become more computer literate I’ve found myself doing less and less of it.
Why, just now I was in the basement reorganizing space so that I could set up a proper Bionaut rig for rehearsal and recording. There I was moving yet another stack of art, shifting synthesizers around (some of which are referred to in the Bionaut lexicon as ‘dead grandmothers’), and getting distracted all over the place every two seconds as I picked up yet another memento of my creative process with which I was at one time involved with as I labored over or with it.
I must say that I had one of those embarrassing ‘a-ha’ moments where I re-realized something I should never have allowed to leave the forefront of my brain. Physical interaction with the art IS THE ART! Of course, the vision is the true art, but the mind is up you know what creek without the body over which to exercise control. Further, the body has a way of having its own say in the matter once it becomes involved in the process.
Art of the mind is philosophy. It’s wonderful to be successful at, and even more wonderful to be satisfied in the knowledge that only a few other committed souls shall comprehend it. For those of us who require a connection with a larger audience for the purpose of, say… making a living, it is much more important to filter your artistic philosophy through the body to make sure it has some basis in the world that the vast majority of people inhabit.
If you’ve read this far, then you obviously realize that I am pontificating on one of the most useless topics ever conceived by mankind… the justification of the creation of art. Nonetheless, I proceed with confidence knowing that I have looked into the abyss and seen the bottom. Best of luck. Brained out total amnesia.
