RIC_1489-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Art on my view is a form of immersion and connection; art is a way of entering deeply into relationship with non-human materials and with human communities. ... Art shows the self of the artist as a place or rather a field of forces in that world: a zone of traversal, flight, or concretization.
Crispin Sartwell, End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History
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