Or "what is art."
"Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers -- in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning. The complex and many-faceted only confuses me, and I must search for unity. What is it, this one thing, and how do I find my way to it? Traces of this perfect thing appear in many guises -- and everything that is unimportant falls away." Arvo Part, http://www.arvopart.org/tintinnabulation.html
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i'm finding the quote hard to follow, but i think he's (or possibly she's) talking about jettisonning the flotsom for a while and focussing on the centre? Bringing things back into focus?
ReplyDeleteI really must learn to do this - often when i do really feel stressed and try to cut out all the noise of the world that becomes the moment when it is most difficult to have clarity
It's all a little mystical isn't it? That's the art for me because it captures something that is beyond rational thought. That certain something that makes the piece (or painting, or book, or dance) click and connect to that "thing" which is universal. Have you ever listened to Part? Is transcendental too strong of a word?
ReplyDeleteIn any case, he has this formal method of composing that I believe he invented. It is through this method that he creates his music. I'm equating his method with meditation because personally, when I meditate, I have the same goals and somewhat the same effect. And good art becomes a shortcut for me to access those feelings that THIS is what life is all about. THIS is the hidden ingredient which drives it all.
Art always always helps me connect to my true self.
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