DIRECTIONS: Seeking a Compass Point

Elijah:  (scratching his head) What are these images saying?

Soo:     Images do not say anything. However, our minds are constantly trying to make 
         sense of the world, creating innumerable interpretations.

Ellesha: Are such interpretations needed? Why not just see just appreciate the patterns 
         as they are without adding interpretations?

Philyra: I doubt that is possible. Our subjectivity influences our perception in more 
         ways than we can imagine.

Jules:   Maybe every work of art has multiple interpretations. On one level, there is 
         simply form and color. However, in a difference sense I believe that every 
         artist is also expressing a political vision.

Soo:     Yeah, too many so-called 'spiritual' philosophies see the world as apolitical. 
         That is naive. Some kind of conflict is always at play.

Elijah:  The Polish poet Wisława Szymborska was insightful. She wrote all things are 
         political, even those things that we politely label as "apolitical". 

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from _Let the waters be my witness: Messages about our watery world_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:   artistic interpretations, subjectivity, relative perceptions, de-politicalication
KEYWORDS:  Some thoughts about philosophy, politics and aesthetics. 

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2000 in Taipei, Taiwan / Finished: 2019 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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