Slide, tangled tongue,
this is what you wanted.
You fail.
Cipher this - What jewel is hardened blood?
What jewel is offered to you?
What sort of sedition
are you now? Are you?
What oil will move you
past the putsch?
Every stud of your surface
is the upraised pike of
a rebel mob, knotting
against, my soul,
the things you have
desired to pass along.
You tongue, you muscle
of unrivaled nerve,
Speak!
Sunday, January 11
SB
Blow, Tradewinds.
Wing me to a harbor
deep and fresh.
A place of rest
where priests look
out to sea, see
sailors there like me,
light the wharf,
and fill the air with spices,
is waiting in the world
under the gaze of
such a one as this.
Wing me to a harbor
deep and fresh.
A place of rest
where priests look
out to sea, see
sailors there like me,
light the wharf,
and fill the air with spices,
is waiting in the world
under the gaze of
such a one as this.
Saturday, January 10
Where is the place for pretension in art? Is every endeavor to reach beyond where you are now a pretension?
What makes art if not pretension?
If no artist ever thought they were capable of doing better, of doing more, of being great, would any of them ever try? Without it we would be lost, and we would never press forward, never take the next step. Without the belief that we can be more than we are, we never would be. We would become stagnant. What is called "pretension" is a necessary part of building anything. Whether the endeavor be artistic, intellectual, physical etc. How will Gordon ever become anything more than a "small christian liberal arts college" without programs like JAF that try to point it toward something greater? Without the drive toward something higher, without steps taken to reach the next place, it would never go anywhere. Unless an artist believes they can paint something great, and begins attempting a great portrait, a great landscape, a great work (which puts them in danger of being called "pretentious") they will never achieve one.
What makes art if not pretension?
If no artist ever thought they were capable of doing better, of doing more, of being great, would any of them ever try? Without it we would be lost, and we would never press forward, never take the next step. Without the belief that we can be more than we are, we never would be. We would become stagnant. What is called "pretension" is a necessary part of building anything. Whether the endeavor be artistic, intellectual, physical etc. How will Gordon ever become anything more than a "small christian liberal arts college" without programs like JAF that try to point it toward something greater? Without the drive toward something higher, without steps taken to reach the next place, it would never go anywhere. Unless an artist believes they can paint something great, and begins attempting a great portrait, a great landscape, a great work (which puts them in danger of being called "pretentious") they will never achieve one.
To cow to this is to accept the lie that you will always be what you are, and that what you can achieve is perfectly understood. This is never the case. Whatever you think you are, whatever others think you are, is never quite right. Whatever can be thought about you is never actually you. Like the scientific laws, they are the descriptions of only what has been seen. They are a single interpretation of a scene in the story.
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