Illuminations and Deep Art. On Richard Sudden.
I adhere to the view that Art can be revelatory, transformative, and healing. That art can possess such powers points to the way of a different kind of wisdom and practice in all manners Aesthetic. For me, the mystery of say something like the experience of beauty is that, unlike a strict Platonic eidos, beauty is in itself is a shifting admixture of joy, serenity, awe, wonder, majesty. Beauty is of multiple design. The degree of power in an artwork is in how the elements above are arranged according to varying degrees of intensity and inflection. Liquid Modernity is a term used to denote art in flux. Our time. Signifiers, symbols, icons, are seen to be dislodged from their source horizon of meaning into a vacuous stream of images circulating the multiple media platforms of our age as mere surface fascination in the service of late capital interests. We are impoverished by this lack of substance and depth many would argue. Calls are made for Artists to engage in nove