Baraka_Guru

I first thought art was what you made for an audience; next, I believed Roland Barthes' words "the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author." But either of these views is too narrow, or, at least, they focus on the wrong thing. Now I believe that an "artwork" is a theory of "Art." The status of an artwork can exist solely in the mind's eye of its creator. It doesn't need an audience to validate its existence, nor does it need to be detached from its creator.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot