I’ve been thinking a lot this week about “realities” and how “real” they are, or can be. Think about the way feelings of fear or guilt or happiness from dreams remain with you the following day. Constant immersion in the developing landscape and balmy heat of my Cinema 4D project and the sadly halcyon world of Brideshead Revisited along with lots of wine for the last four days has reminded me how I felt during the first year – more “escapist”, and more comfortable as a result of rebuilding this forgotten dimension and residing in it, a glass of hot Lipton Morroco and the smell of Pine incense as the morning sun pours through the bedroom window unintentionally reminding myself that it is indeed all real. More often than not the realities I create for myself suggest themselves to be more real to me than any supposed, fixed, actual “reality”. Three nice quotes on the subject, previously collected and unused (including a belter from Mr. Klee):
“Now that inter-reality travel is possible, we will become the very substance of hallucination. All realities are equal. We will enter and leave at will all realities regardless of their location. In the retreat from matter all realities are equal.”
- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
“Let us go on a little trip to the land of the deep understanding of things: In times gone by, people painted what they had seen or enjoyed, or would like to see in the world around them. Today we emphasize that what we see physically is only relative. There are things we cannot see but which are still real; there are many other realities and other truths in the universe - our reality is only one isolated instance. Compared with all the universe and creation, Art is only a parable - an example - just as Earthly life is only an example, an illustration, of cosmic life. Art goes beyond the visible world - it plays the game of creation without knowing what it is doing, just as a child playing is imitating us, so we imitate those unseen forces which created the world itself. In the make-believe world of Art, we should draw upon everything we know or feel or understand, good and bad. Art should be like a holiday - something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view. The artist knows that the process of creation is never complete. What he sees is the act of world creation stretching from the past into the future, Genesis Eternal.”
- Paul Klee
“If you can’t imagine things, you can’t make them, and anything you imagine is real”
- Alexander Calder
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