{"id":1682,"date":"2014-10-24T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2014-10-24T10:06:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:06:04","slug":"poem-in-possibility-incarnate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/24\/poem-in-possibility-incarnate\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: In Possibility Incarnate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alex created<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A work of art<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Another<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Each infinitely improbable<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In possibility incarnate<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Bound only<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By certain desire<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>One in many<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This poem is a mini-manifesto on art and the artistic process; hopefully, inducing some inspiration and incarnating some guidance.\u00a0 Surly, art can be enhanced by rarefied skills.\u00a0 Still, art at its core is a work of heart.\u00a0 Art is democratic in a sense; anyone willing to dance with desire and possibility can cast a vote.\u00a0 Art is abundantly fair in that you can vote early and often in this existential dance called life.\u00a0 Ultimately, the whole of our life is our work of art.\u00a0 Of course, critics also abound.\u00a0 Those who can&#8217;t do, teach; those who can&#8217;t teach, criticize.\u00a0 We all have areas of our lives where doing, leading by example, being the change we want to see in the world, devolves into mere teaching.\u00a0 Further, we all have areas of our lives where teaching devolves into mere criticizing.\u00a0 Some don&#8217;t even have the passion or self-awareness to even choose what they do, and instead of living, their life is lived for them by the forces surrounding them.\u00a0 The freedom in creating art is bound by certain desire.\u00a0 As certainly, our desires and passions are unique, not identical to any other.\u00a0 In expressing our unique selves and perspectives, art is both intensely personal and inescapably social, an expression of our experience as one in many.\u00a0 Some claim that all art is about God.\u00a0 I think this means that all art is an expression of our experience as one in many and our relationship with the whole, the One, of which some call God.\u00a0 Of course, many artists are reluctant to speak of God directly, often for very different reasons.\u00a0 Some view the One as unspeakably beautiful and speaking falls short, even more so than our tentative art or lives.\u00a0 Some view any formal relationship with God, often referred to as religion, as a source of unspeakable horrors.\u00a0 I suspect that the views on this are as diverse as the art and artists daring to ponder such stuff.\u00a0 Neither this poem, nor my rantings, are intended to serve as some ultimate guide to political correctness, though my life inescapably expresses a particular perspective.\u00a0 While this poem is 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