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  1. tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 02:33:58 JST tinydoctor tinydoctor

    An Apology for Art

    The art I make is not about communicating. My art is about being communicable, like an infectious disease. I aim to be virulent, not inviting. The audience will invite itself. Or not. I often tag posts #talkingtomyself #lettingyoulisten. A 19th century Hasidic Rabbi said that, 'I'm talking to myself and letting you listen." I repeat it, often, because it encapsulates my relationship to my work and any audience sitting out there in the dark theater of the Nietzchean abyss. 1/

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    • tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 02:34:04 JST tinydoctor tinydoctor
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      I sometimes share my art with an audience, but I don't share the meaning of my art. I tend to suppress any explicit meaning, if it's showing. I write poetry, not explanations. Explanation is a kind of diagnosis of the diseases poetry and art, and diagnosis is its own kind of disease, as Karl Krauss points out. As a diagnosed Manic Depressive, I'm fond of saying I am my own disease. Get your own disease. Or make my disease your own. 2/...

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    • tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 02:34:04 JST tinydoctor tinydoctor
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      If you are my audience. I mean to salt your brain with mutagenic prions made of dense tangles of imagery and metaphor, and hope for new meaning to self-assemble in the marbled fat under your skullcap--Meaning difficult of diagnosis, that cannot be enveloped in the white pus of explanation, and resistant to the antibodies of curation. I hope not for a cure, but there is no cure. 3/...

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    • tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 02:34:05 JST tinydoctor tinydoctor
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      I confess not every poem I write or artwork I create is true to the strictures of inexplicability and ambiguity, of this disease of mutable meaning. I occasionally explain, make explicit, make my meaning known. Sometimes it has to be done. For that I apologize, to my muse and to my audience. 4/end

      Have some art: #scissordance Superposition without Explanation, or, Schrödinger’s Carrots

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    • tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 02:34:40 JST tinydoctor tinydoctor
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      Addendum: I also often recall Karl Krauss' aphorism: "I hear noises which others don’t hear and which disturb for me the music of the spheres, which others don’t hear either. Many share my views with me. But I don’t share them with them."

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