RE: The "Life is..." thread.
August 28, 2016 at 2:59 pm
(August 28, 2016 at 1:02 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (August 28, 2016 at 9:43 am)Emjay Wrote: The mental landscape and it's dynamics are too complicated so they feel like they're confined forever to my mind, but I would give anything to get just a bit of it out there... for my own aid and as a legacy. Because that's the worst part of it... billions of lives throughout history, all with a lifetime's worth of unique wisdom, all lost, as if it never happened, in death, unless it is somehow expressed.
This is why I write!
I used to write
a lot, for years, but though it was helpful, therapeutic, and formative for me at the time, it doesn't do much for me now. It tends to miss the essence of what I'm trying to express, and that's all I want now, the essence. I can write essays till I'm blue in the face but they don't possess the sort of instinctual understanding I'm hoping for. So that's why I'm thinking about art as opposed to writing. I want to convey an idea in the simplest possible terms, using metaphors, symbols, and simple shapes and colours... so that a) I'm physically capable of doing it given my terrible art skills, and b) can just look at it and know in an instant what it represents. So that what results is almost like a logo in terms of simplicity, impact, and meaning. Poetry I guess would also work... if it's about using metaphors, double-meanings, and relationships between words to paint a picture, but that's even more daunting than the art
But it is an option. The hardest part is trying to identify exactly what the essence is that I want to portray and finding the right symbols and relationships between symbols to represent it... but I'm getting there
