From: SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 17:31:01 BST
Dear Platt,
this is a continuation of my personal experience post, but with a more
appropriate title.
I was in a modern art gallery with my brother today and i thought about your
ideas. I feel this was natural for me to do, as i always think about those
with whom i, to some degree, harmonise and have sympathy with. (If you feel this
is becoming sycophantic - stop there! As it happens, i find your politics a
bit too right wing for my taste, as i am by nature a socialist. But may we leave
delicate shading aside for now?)
I came upon a small figure cast in bronze - a slender woman dancing and
gliding down a few steps; arms swaying high in the air - fingers expressive of
abandonment, rather in the manner of sea vegetation at one in a clear ocean
current. The figure was about 20 inches tall. I was in awe when i saw it.
Now the thing is Platt, in this instant there were no subjects and objects as
far as i can see. The figure is a work of art - a whole plethora of values,
not simply some verdigris bronze. And there were no subjects and objects when
the figure was created - the language we have for describing these events is a
system of values in relationships with DQ.
The figure, the artist and i, are islands in a continuum of values - and all
the while responding to DQ. When patterns merge or harmonise, there is no
sense of anything but high Quality - beauty. Here i give you an example of how
DQ-SQ tension is part of my interpretation of experience. This happened only a
few hours ago.
I see this more and more and in many mundane and simple ways the more i relax
into the language of the MoQ. Its all the time - a continuum of values.
By the way, guess what i read on the plaque explaining who the artist was
with background information accompanying the figure? The figure was inspired by
the philosophy of Bergson - aiming to show how reality is a flowing continuum!
Bergson may have failed in his attempt at metaphysics, but Robert Pirsig has
succeeded in many striking ways in my view.
All the best,
squonk
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