Title
Into the Light
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Mixed Media - Monotype
Description
Form in pristine ambiguity has the potential to open new worlds to any viewer willing to allow the image - form - to tell 'its' story...Each viewer holds the key to the language of form because he/she has a most miraculous gift: imagination. And 'imagination' has stumped the greatest minds of old and as it turns out right into our own! What can be said to turn the tide?
At the most rudimentary level, imagination is said to drift on truth; denote real potential; fantasy on the other hand is unreal, impossible so lacks potential's truth...
The fact is that today more than ever, as a society, we need to re-examine imagination; and for a starting point I propose an examination of the confusion that has been growing as to the distinction of imagination vs. fantasy. How we carelessly allow the two interchangeability speaks to the growing problem of attempting to reconnect to the true importance that imagination has for humans - far beyond its utility to art. But we no longer believe that the event of life has purpose, so it seems that the tools afforded us are of no consequence!
In this case the consequence proclaims mediocrity; and that has far reaching implications to society and its attempt to develop, enrich its culture and foster a future that embraces its constituents. In its embrace hope unfolds into faith and optimism replaced nihilism! And humans are in need of a feeling of optimism; it energizes us and urges us to create, and objectify the potential that 'imagination' continually presents to us as living-image...What do I mean by 'living-image?
Those are images that 'speak' to us; intrigue our mind and beg us to action...They elicit questions and query; and as we grow from our involvement, that they sparked in us, they extend their dialogue beyond what we formerly believed might be possible...But never to the 'impossible' for that is 'mere' and merely Fantasy!
My suggestion is astonishingly close to 'magic' which also suffers today in its confusion thru fantasy. Yet many have been touch at some time in life by an event that only was verbal as: Magic (falling in love might so remind)...
Is there a rider flying across the image on his trusty steed? Is there jubilation at his arrival or mere indifference? Your imagination might tell it [the event] differently; yet it will tell you one tale today and if you revisit it weeks later it will tell you a richer tale...How is it possible? Nothing has changed...And that is what is meant by a Living-image! And perhaps that is why I prefer to line my own walls with my works, rather than dispense them out as commodities - they are always growing, maturing and presenting me with questions about life that beg my inquiry...
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September 23rd, 2016
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