Dear reader,
Happy New 2013! I wish you a wonderful, marvelous, joyful and blessed year! Thank you for being with me from the beginning of this blog. All the clicks and comments are truly encouraging. I do apologize for not writing the last few months. Life got busy, holidays came, and as a new writer, I just didn’t have the discipline to make myself write during a stressful period. I am learning, however, and I’m working on doing better in the future.
So to begin the new year, let’s review what’s been said in this blog so far. I decided to write here because I wanted to learn about art – its essence and its purpose in life – from the most general to the individually specific. And I began with the question “Is art real?” Is art universal for all humanity, or is it just a culturally accepted phenomenon dependent on nationality, time and space? From all my readings and research, I believe the evidence shows that art exists wherever humanity is present.
From here I went on to writing about the making of a thing, any thing – how before any substance begins to be shaped, decisions need to be made about what and how that shaping is to be. That somehow led me to talk about invisible things, which I defined very specifically as terms we use daily that are not physical – a jar is a physical object, but society is not, yet it is still just as real. And I have yet to think and write about how that’s connected to art. What I did say very definitely was that I do believe that the beginning – the origin – of an object or a process tells us much about the essence of it. And so what were the origins of art?
After reading and thinking much, my conclusion is: what we call art today came from activities we today call religion. I hope in the following posts to be able to explain my point clearly and satisfactorily.
Happy New Year, dear reader!
Art and the Invisible 