“Creative artists … are mankind’s wakeners to recollection: summoners of our outward mind to conscious contact with ourselves, not as participants in this or that morsel of history, but as spirit, in the consciousness of being. Their task, therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.”
Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God, Volume IV: Creative Mythology
What is art if not to awaken us? To make things seen that we do not see, to bring light onto subjects we would pass by. Art says, “Look. Hear. Feel. Experience.” – and then some.
Art creates a place where we are present.
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