I am taking a mooc from www.iversity.org entitled Digital Arts. In the first lesson, we were given a question to answer.  What is life?  Here are my thoughts on that.

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What if Art is really just Life, in and of itself?

What if art then masks itself to appear as if it is just a part, or an element, of life?

Why would it do this?  Well, without the mask, most human minds would more than likely collapse under the stress of actually knowing what is real.  Thinking one knows what is real is easier to live with than actually knowing what is real.

Don’t you think?

Or don’t you know?

So as a masked reality, art explains itself and in the process, explains life.

What really makes this interesting (and challenging) is that each individual creates art.  They do this whether they think they do or not; or whether they call it art or not.  And…..

…each individual’s art reflects their own truth about life.

So there are currently, and have been, and will continue to be, infinite truths about art – and of life itself…

…and they are all true.

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So I answered the question this way.

“Art is life; pretending not to be life; while going about the process of understanding and explaining life.”

I just thought it might need some clarification.  ~wink~

Skate around

the lemni scate.

In creases

go deeper in.

Limitless on a

plane of no limit.

Iced in finite

I see.

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Take care and seek peace,

Vince

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