Communion with Plato’s Aesthetics

The following has been taken from a letter to a friend. His words on beauty set in motion a deeper investigation into the essence of this mysterious human form. Fundamentally beauty underpins art, and the very being of the artist. …

Success in the underworld

Still in pursuit of identity, one of my books has posed an interesting argument: Are crimes perceived as more terrible when the victims are anonymous? Yes, it is one of these obvious questions I never thought of (and this is …

Thoughts on their graves

While we have reasonable control over how we perceive ourselves in life, there is little control over how others see us in death. What gravestone they choose, how they decorate the grave with flowers, pictures and other thoughtful gestures. On …

On the extraordinary dynamics of play

child in its essence is complex, and yet it is not so.Ruthless, proud, pure. Their game in itself is creative and imaginative[No losers in fate] is quite liberal to all and devoid of any goalother than pleasure in time; countless …

What it means to be a true muse

Then the artist is not only driven by outside forces, contrary, tointernal currents slowly drifting. It is thus a fundamental principle of human nature thateach part of us makes a whole {logically}, none could be isolated. yet,each with individual intentions …

On creation

A lot of what inspires creation as an artist, also inspires creation for life, andthis is not just the hunger and lust when you sense the intimacy of art, and ego. In a space contrasts, all duality creates tension; stress …

Letters relinquished

[extract taken from diary no. 34] I do not know why but I instantly knew… His last letter still hung on my wall, then he must have beenthe words on my skin, straight across myback carefully observing curves, and all …

The Engels Paradox

The spirits of Edgar Allan Poe rising in an echo, like Marx – frequently Engels – ambling in the slums of Europe but living in edged on the peripherical better parts of towns. One has always been of the opinion …

The wombat and the ego

Is spiritual emergency, a personal emergency which has to be excused in any way? Something greater achieved is something greater perceived with ego side by side. A little nudge, blatant, open praise. It stirs like the wombat inthe book, though …