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Jul. 17th, 2006 02:04 amPop vs. high art? The people whose ways in the world impress us are those who leave it, by standing in front of it with charms or distinctions, or drawing us in loops out past it for a while, into impossibilities of fantasy, humor or revisionary abstraction.
But there are words about the world that remind us further into it.
Life is potential memory, is a memory we haven’t entirely had yet. The better you remember what you’re doing while you do it, the more alive you become. And memory, as we all know, is a matter of tricks. Our art, all true art, centers on those tricks--explaining and demonstrating them.
Some tricks, and presumably the greater part of those either still undiscovered or perpetually reforgotten, are enormously complicated.
Remembering all relevant tricks at once is a trick itself.
But there are words about the world that remind us further into it.
Life is potential memory, is a memory we haven’t entirely had yet. The better you remember what you’re doing while you do it, the more alive you become. And memory, as we all know, is a matter of tricks. Our art, all true art, centers on those tricks--explaining and demonstrating them.
Some tricks, and presumably the greater part of those either still undiscovered or perpetually reforgotten, are enormously complicated.
Remembering all relevant tricks at once is a trick itself.
