Surrealist gesture

November 15, 2007

9. if there is something

Filed under: i am the fire that flares up again — Jonathan Douglas Duran @ 2:37 pm

If there is something inside you, you should be able to find a way to extract it, to remove and distort it. Separate it from its base and use it for devices previously not thought of and not designed for it. I’m speaking of course not only on the meditative qualities of personal Id, or of self-effecting intellect solely for intellect’s sake. The most formulaic and pre-determined notions can and somehow must evolve into a creature/movement of great predatory power and function. Predatory not in an exactly physically destructive sense, the material world is far too ridiculous in its excesses for something as prurient and level as (at this point) un-bridled brain synapses: our basic biology.

 

Digressing for a short moment:

I wish to extrapolate on the theory of free-will and its association and effect on creativity.

The artistic process (however large an abstraction that is, for the sake of argument we will take it upon ourselves to generalize) is and becomes most personal and unrestricted when it is subject only to the filter (or the ‘non-filter’ some will argue) of the subconscious. Through the process of the “automatic”, whether it be in writing or just the practical practice of free-association, we find our subconscious is the only hand to have fondled the idea, that is if otherwise deliberate and rational external parameters and thoughts were not taken into account as a way to validate or categorize the thought, it is indeed as pure as our human nature ever allows one (a thought/artistic expression) to be.

 

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