This is the most amazing thing in the entire universe. I want to print it out and carry it with me and read it all the time (the last time I read a narrative that moved me, I taped it into the front part of my journal when I was 18/19).
I really love what you said about art, because when people talk about art (at least some people) they talk about how it "spoke to them". Which really makes me think of how so many different types of art "speak" to different types of people. And not just physical art like a painting, but music and film as well. And I've always described my relationship to film as more intuitive than based on a firm set of criteria for what I want my film to have. And I can always tell if I like a movie by my internal response to it - so I guess it's "speaking" to me in that way. Which I like.
And I think it's also interesting about what people allow themselves to be open to, in terms of communication with various forms of art. Like I listen mostly to asian pop music, it speaks to me, even though I don't literally understand the lyrics. But there are many people (at least Americans) who are closed off to non-English speaking music because they can't understand it (or what have you).
And the willingness to open up to art reminds me a lot of spirituality texts that talk about "ascension" and how when we're more open to God and our spiritual selves, our lives change in proportion to what we allow to change (more or less - and if that makes sense). So I think of this because there's a certain degree of consciousness required when we interact with art - for example, there's a lot of music that is misogynistic or racist, but if you're not aware of what a song is saying (or even care), then that type of music is going to speak to you because your consciousness is at the same level as that song/type of music.
And I think this ties in with what kind of art we allow to interact with our consciousness - like the seemingly never ending debate over the good-ness of 50 Shades of Gray - and how do we raise our consciousness so that the quality of our art also increases.
Anyway- total rant. I really enjoyed this post. It's so awesome. <3
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I really love what you said about art, because when people talk about art (at least some people) they talk about how it "spoke to them". Which really makes me think of how so many different types of art "speak" to different types of people. And not just physical art like a painting, but music and film as well. And I've always described my relationship to film as more intuitive than based on a firm set of criteria for what I want my film to have. And I can always tell if I like a movie by my internal response to it - so I guess it's "speaking" to me in that way. Which I like.
And I think it's also interesting about what people allow themselves to be open to, in terms of communication with various forms of art. Like I listen mostly to asian pop music, it speaks to me, even though I don't literally understand the lyrics. But there are many people (at least Americans) who are closed off to non-English speaking music because they can't understand it (or what have you).
And the willingness to open up to art reminds me a lot of spirituality texts that talk about "ascension" and how when we're more open to God and our spiritual selves, our lives change in proportion to what we allow to change (more or less - and if that makes sense). So I think of this because there's a certain degree of consciousness required when we interact with art - for example, there's a lot of music that is misogynistic or racist, but if you're not aware of what a song is saying (or even care), then that type of music is going to speak to you because your consciousness is at the same level as that song/type of music.
And I think this ties in with what kind of art we allow to interact with our consciousness - like the seemingly never ending debate over the good-ness of 50 Shades of Gray - and how do we raise our consciousness so that the quality of our art also increases.
Anyway- total rant. I really enjoyed this post. It's so awesome. <3