What a wonderfully thought-provoking journal! Bravo!

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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than
any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful.
--E Burne-Jones

Thank you!

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Wonderfully written.

And I certainly love the second video. The music goes great with it.

Thanks very much!

And I'm glad you like the video; hope to expand on those shortly.

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Beautifully thought out and well written. Bravo. MLS

I've said many, many times, the only thing deviant about deviant art is the censorship.

My journals explain more, mostly in response to banned artworks, banned deviants, or people who have left because of the censorship.

Thanks! The compliment is much appreciated.

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I read it

I was up all night thinking. If the photographer tomorrow complains about dark eye circles I'll tell him who to talk to.

I like your definition. Art as a sister to language - I completely agree, although I don't know how you can say that art is superior - how do you value such things? I don't think we are so far apart in our understandings. I just take mine to a different place.

Thank you! By saying that art is "higher form of communication" I meant more rarified and complex (in the sense of the "a picture is worth a 1000 words" ), and in some ways more fragile; not superior or "better than" language in the sense of placing a value on it. Perhaps that wording is clumsy, but the question of relative value was not on my mind.

But since you brought it up, I have to wonder about it. Some traditions, I think, may assign a superior position to Art (to include music and dance): Buddhism, as I recall, has a saying that, "The best things in Life cannot be said" and other literature has (though I have no sources to cite at this moment) dwelt on the inadequacy of language to address or convey our most profound feelings and experiences.

If Art (as opposed to language) is better at conveying the feelings that are most important to us, the things that are most profound and move us most deeply, then I think it might be justified to say that Art is superior form of communication.

I am not yet entirely convinced of the foregoing proposition; it needs to be pondered further to see if it has a more than personal foundation. For myself, I generally find words wholly inadequate for saying almost anything I really wish to say, hence my attachment to Art.

Of course, perhaps I am just less articulate than I should be, and as to the question of whether my attempts at Art succeed any better than my inadequate words in conveying my message, I cannot say. It is a conundrum, and I have not the wit tonight to unwind it.

And I hope the photographer was understanding.

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