Pursuing the Mystery
Added 2025-04-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTCAn Aphorism by Luiza Liz Bond
(Painting "Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" by Francis Bacon)
Comments
Beautifully put. ‘today’s art world fears mystery because it fears meaning’, I find this also to be true in social connection. We fear the mystery inside ourselves and the other, afraid to surrender to the meaning of the communication exchange between one another. Separately, I find it sad that ‘critical thought’ has become reduced by diagnoses and self-identification. I believe that’s what many think it means. So much inward looking and ‘self-discovery’ but it’s not really INward as it is only skin-deep, a searching for a satisfying spot in the status quo.
Rebecca Orton
2025-04-10 15:33:55 +0000 UTCPowerful. Though you speak of painting, I find it relevant to my art too.
Denys Bastov
2025-04-09 19:59:27 +0000 UTC
