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26.2.11
Catalytic Art
The function of art as an object is to generate acts of cognition which increase our capacity for imagination. An uneasy relationship between two entities - the created and the creator - then forms to mark off boundaries where each object can be expressed in the world.
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The function of an object as art is to generate objects that increase our relations to the greater assemblage of objects we call the universe. All art is an achieved anxiety: the ambivalence of objects is in their dual inheritance: the real that forever recedes from our grasp, and the sensual that forever exceeds our grasp; the unity of the two is just that ambivalence we call the artistic object.
If by objects here you mean mental images or affective-memory imprints, then I would agree to that.
I like the notion of 'the ambivalence of objects' as well, but I would add that despite this all real objects remain vulnerable - to alliances as well as destruction, and therefore never fully withdrawn from our grasp.
It's a matter of depth and perception, and depth-perception. Art calls from its depths and we from ours and the contact between the two create the 'music' of experience.
The split between real and sensual is an illusory gap conjured by animals that fail to recognize their ontological kin in the other object. We are, in fact and experience, always at home in the universe.
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