"Long live the eyeball and the lucid heart" --Stan Rice



I suppose you could say that all art is caused by a disturbance in the field/flow. If it is true that the artist is the 'master of objects', then art is but a manipulation of the world. Further, all arts are merely the edge of a crawling chaos that is the well of our unconscious. An artist may be precise, even methodical, but the crest behind them is always the unspoken threat of dissolution. That's why they are the first against the wall and the first recruited for propaganda. As if the State wasn't aware of this.

It is only a young, naive artist who does not see this. Old, cynical artists often become paralyzed because of it. How do you make a move when you know that the outcome could be censure or death? You just do it, and try to have no alliance, except to yourself and your work. All artists should say they are apolitical even if they are not. The same goes for their religious convictions. If, post-humously their tendencies are uncovered; fine. They've moved on anyways.

History will judge them no matter what they say. No matter what they actually meant. The artist is never meant to have complete control of themselves. Even the most self-possessed still in some way channel the geist of their people. Even if they (especially) are hermetic, loners swearing to dispise society, they bring the rejected to the front. See it? Not this time. Maybe next time around.