Art in Interesting Places

There is so much "high art" today that means nothing. The idea of art itself barricades it from real criticism, so much is so ancient and revered it has become a superstition. No one can look through the vapor of the idea of a piece of classical art to see what exists behind it. A real radical idea is rare. When I was younger I had a collection of beautiful notebooks and journals that I would never write in because I felt like any ideas I would have wouldn’t match the book itself. I've realized however that anything worth keeping was usually mad scratchings and scribblings on scratch paper and napkin fragments.


So what is the point here? Don’t ignore the subversive power of a real idea in a surprising location. Maybe that even increases its power.

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