SED Artist

  • He who knows what Good is, will do Good.

    Socrates (c. 470 – 399 b.c) thought that no one could possibly be happy if they acted against their better judgement. And he who knows how to achieve happiness will do so. Therefore, he who knows what is right will do right: because why would anybody choose to be unhappy ?  But wait ?!!!  Knowing…

  • What’s so different between the beginning and the end ?

    What’s so different between the beginning and the end ?

    How do change and stagnation exist in the same space? How does the lack of external intellectual stimulation, kill your own intellectual curiosity?  There is only so much you can achieve on your own. Your own imagination is a variation, a beautiful creative mirror, a mix, of our external and internal world. Neither one can…

  • Artistic Dichotomies

    Conceptual is for the artists as philosophy is for the writers. In all art forms, it turns out, there is a certain dichotomy between the aesthetic, and the conceptual. This isn’t only a dichotomy that is faced by the artists, the makers, the performers, their creators, but also, naturally, by the audience, the public, the…

  • Thanatos, Puss in Boots, Irvin D. Yalom… and Fairies.

    Eternal return’s absence in Death. There is a book I used to read, as a little girl, that spoke of Death and Fairies. It wasn’t fantasy, it felt more like poetic philosophy disguised as a children’s book: exciting, beautiful, and most importantly, it addressed that thing that scares us the most, Death. I have been…

  • Living, breathing, reading, feeling, eating, thinking, being…Art.

    Who is the Artist ? Who do these people think they are, telling you if you are, or if you are not, an artist? My art teacher, during the most crucial years of my self-development, told me once, that I didn’t have what it takes to be an artist, and that it doesn’t matter anyway…

  • Same same, but different

    The philosophies and tangents of perpetuating perceptions and eternal return There’s a particular combat you take part in when returning home, or to a place you which has known many versions of you. This ‘tug of war’ like combat is a challenge between you, and other people’s versions of you. Somehow, and perhaps unwillingly, there…

  • Art and Women

    Art and Women

    Remarks by Siri Hustvedt And notations of my own “Without a viewer, a reader, a listener, art is dead.” It begs the question, who do we make art for ? A lot of artists will tell you they make art, firstly, for themselves. This is especially the case in the beginning, when the audience is…