External voice: Where is the edgy impasto paintings referencing the photography of an award winning journalist documenting the Arab spring uprising? Where are the kitsch irreverent products of a highly conceptualised manipulation of iconic modern technology? Where is the significance in a golden forest that seems neither to engage with social mediums or media, and refuses quietly to maintain an outdated reverence despite its lack of denomination?
The art that the Artist produces and thinks interesting and clever, will generally not be interesting and clever. The viewer loves the instant fix, as is the viewer's right. An illustrative cacophony of silence bends the light into the golden boughs and whispers nothing, and it has no content but its form.
But the Artist defends the meaning, or lack thereof, by referencing the invisible works that came before, like some grand narrative or concatenation of self-reflexive and mentally unstable self portraits masquerading as externally directed imagery.
Artist: "No, no! It's more like the crown of a description of Being that cannot be described in circular phrases, yet relies on the appropriation of the logocentric journey to delineate the boundaries and form the structure of the edifice that the image must crown."
External voice: Oh wow! What an amazingly esoteric and formidable browbeat, no wonder a recourse to imagery was needed. And why not dramatise it excessively by referring to it as a crown, the top! The pinnacle of achievement, wow, it must be great.... not. The Artist couldn't say it, and he can't paint it!
Artist: "But the intention was to illustrate the end of the journey and, in a sense, the beginning, the finding of the whole amongst its parts."
External voice: Never heard that before, 'it's about the journey' they whine, and 'it doesn't matter about the product' they mewl. Well, it's not about the journey! The journey is nothing if you don't get somewhere or something, and so it's all about the product, we're nothing without the tangible reward, the success, the trophy of the win.
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