.all around me are familiar faces.

"could you ever live in a space like that?"

 

"with those melancholy faces with the 'save me!' eyes that look like a warped timeline

of reincarnated lives?"

 

"yeh."

 

"art like that, it's like spellcasting. the viewer doesn't realize what he/she is seeing until it's already embedded in their mind. and the trick is that the average person thinks they have the mental strength to control what gets absorbed and what gets filtered out by their brains. ultimately the artist is a magician and the intent of any piece of art is always subconsciously ingested by the viewer. i think this is why i have such a hard time accepting most really blatantly dystopian artwork. i feel that if you're gonna subject your audience to such then there should be a little comic relief thrown in too so it's not all so very heavy all the time. like dali was a master at this - even in his most surreal with his themes of life, birth and death there was a beautiful absurdity to his work that gave you room to breathe as a viewer. not a lot of artists do that these days. everything has become so full frontal, full throttle shock value oriented or work is created for the sole purpose of offending a specific audience without actually really saying anything. it all comes back to intent - the intent of the artist. either you want to connect with your audience and share a moment or you want to stand above your audience and "force" your perspective. i don't know. i mean this i kind of do like this piece if i interpret it as the continuum of perhaps one person incarnating over many lifetimes since all the faces overlap somehow, or i could take it as literally "we are all connected", but every face is so meloncholy or apathetic. i feel that if i had to look at that every day that some aspect of that intent or feeling would manifest into my life."

 

"so i'll take that as a 'no'."

 

 

 

Done