h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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“LUX VITA”

Art is a very old forest growing from the deepest roots of language and expression, a vast and complex ecosystem of ideas and their simulacra.

Dubious of our ability to describe it in words we talk of our aim - the aim of art; in itself it is inspiring or challenging, difficult to grasp, seen through ancient mists of culture and philosophy. It has no clear and singular conclusion, existing within a matrix of ever changing paradigms, it evolves.

Arts purpose, in part, is to arrest the busy mind for a moment of contemplation, to break the deep hypnosis of our distant goals and simply get lost in the momentary vision of form and colour. To pause for a smile or frown. To sigh at a representation of starlight and shadow and be absorbed in the interaction of chaos and the sublime.

Like our life, maybe all life, the real information, the discernible
thought, is in the tonal zone between brightest and darkest, both being forms of the sublime void. We exist in light but are sculpted from the darkness, perhaps.

Then there is the language and symbology of the colours and tones...a dance in form and ground, about the beauty of the lost or seemingly insignificant moment. The minute particulars, like reflections of the world in a dew drop; the beauty of the fleeting moment unnoticed by most; or the morphic recapitulation of those moments in dreams and abstraction.

Mostly its all about the “Lux vita”... The light of life...Our life of light .
Starstuff becomes thought, the thought becomes an idea, the idea becomes art; the self-expression of the universe.