Wednesday, March 10, 2010

cliche’s!

think of the cliche aspect of art these days
that is to say what it's grown into over years -
like 'in box' factor
look, for instance, on the the menu bar on your computer -
note the icons: here a musical note - click on it - your music library pops up (bands, kinda 'boxy') -
then here's a camera icon - click on it - up pops photos (box; photography is what photography is)- dvd icon - click on and you can watch films (films are films, have grown a tad cliche, agreed?).. - the "W" icon for 'Word' - for typing - type a book (box!) or poetry (box!).. other boxes (cliche's): the theater - actors study script, get up on stage and try and strike cords in audience (box concept! - which masses continue to gobble up lol).. - you're walking about downtown and see a big metal sculpture - box(!) - and to think of all the paperwork the artist or his/her minions had to bend his/her/their brain(s) over to get it aoked by the GOV.
djing (box!) painting (boxes! 2D! 2D! 2D!) - zoning on computer (box, 2D, lots of 2D - all that 2D ingested - gazing on flat screen - reading words and listening to music and looking at pictures and watching flims and reading words and listening to music and looking at pictures and watching flims and...) museums (boxes - and all those paychecks disht out for upkeep) -
pleads the question - what's not box!?

Eeem.. multi-media art pierces through time to time - performance art can crack chains - and yes certain abstract paintings prove unfettered, keys unlock doors freeing imaginations to explore newness, this or that

conceptual art can be free as well i.e. is outside of box/cage

and yes while books hinge on (are pretty bound to) words to make them function even so a rich novel in which the writer is not shackled to getting paycheck from publishing house machines - and not sidelining originality to pander to the masses - these can really shatter cliche over the knee and send thinking and hearts beyond the day to day cliche

non fiction too - currently reading a chapter from my Dad's soon to publish book "THE SURREAL REICH" - a number of his prev books drive home that truth can be stranger than fiction / drop jaw

creating new book as you gaze on lighted screen about 15 inches away from your eyeballs
say a prayer for me and look at these 2 novels time being eh www.adamtyson.com

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