An Analogy to Resisting Containment

by Terrance DePietro

Title

An Analogy to Resisting Containment

Artist

Terrance DePietro

Medium

Painting - Watercolor

Description

Arriving in July of 2016, this whimsical unfolding of an image, had from its very beginning a suggestive imply to process in the midst of some type of liminal rite or analogy to a speculative stage of alchemical corpus.

And it is of no wonder that the imply of 'containment' might bring it to mind at this time, eight months into its being; when the latest inquiries are troubled by what I see arriving in time and term as: Tautological Imagination.

'Tautological Imagination', what is suggested?

When the word 'tautological' is tossed into a conversion today, the common dictionary definitions lead to its involvement in logic or rhetoric. But besides those implies to redundancies and circular discourse, there also is the inference that 'circular' shares analogy to 'closed-systems'. [The second law of thermodynamics deals with such systems, which by their nature of being closed produce the effect of 'entropy]'. And as the term 'circular imagination' is already established, and speaks to an entirely different set of conjecture - the new term becomes necessary and most appropriate.

Tautological, then, in this condition, is concerned with what happens when imagination becomes ‘circular’; more importantly, circular, in correlation to a closed-system. Imagination being a dynamic, generating nowhere but in-on-itself; entropy following, virtually divesting imagination of generative function, if not snuffing it out entirely.

Proposed in such terms, an imperative is implied for creative function as it is enjoyed by modern creative art, especially art that involves itself in imaginal displays, suggestive of ethereal, mythic or generally emotive subjectivity - all openly expressive of feeling and aesthetically alluring to the viewer.

So what better place to expose the notion, especially that the notion is antithetical to a process where something unfolds, takes breath and expands. This image is analogy to 'resistance', as much as containment. And the notion of 'tautological imagination' is most necessarily something that most be resisted - yet seems to be the fruits of our time, in a nutshell!

Yet again, in fairness to the image, the notions of containment, resistance, et al, are merely consequentially disposed to one mind, at one specific time and with weight to only a handful of contemporaneous questions and topics. The configurations that suggest material or symbolic forms, as well announce potential in any number of affairs. The image then is enjoyed 'imaginally' by any viewer, supposedly in any time or place...

That the image can be interpreted and enjoyed independent of the artist's marker is what the artist attempts to foster in the creative process. Constituting image that is talkative beyond its time and place, simply sounds like the intention behind the word 'art' - or so it might be questioned.
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Copyright 2017 Terrance DePietro, all rights expressly reserved.

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February 19th, 2017

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