What Art Is, Part 7: Conflict Resolution
Meaning is under continual attack. King, corporation, stupidity, and superficiality conspire to replace life with entertainment, understanding with information, and identity with apathy. Art is about meaning. Ultimately meaning is restored by cultivating profound connections to other people, to nature, and to eternity.City Love (mixed media on panel, 2005) consists of two small square panels, hung close together on a wall, faced with rough concrete. The close physical proximity and visual similarity of the two panels links them as a pair. They are not identical, but their differences seem insignificant. They have been raised from horizontal --the orientation in which concrete must be applied-- and elevated together on the wall, where they lose their resemblance to pavers, where they cannot be put to use or walked on.
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