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 from the series "A Conceptual Ecology of Artl" Art Statement Primarily I am concerned with visual language, which came before writing. That said, the long awaited ‘death of painting’ is an unrealistic expectation. The science of non-verbal discourse dates back to Charles Darwin’s 1872 publication on the expression of emotions in humans and animals. Kevin Zeng Hu at MIT Media Lab writes “we all know how unwieldy texting can be and how much context can be lost, especially emotional context. Once you make it visual, you have a higher bandwidth to convey nuance.” Such science confirms that painting and literature offer different kinds of notation in use ever since calligraphy split off from pictography. In visual art just as in music, we awaken to conversations within conversations; we experience patterns, sequences, bridges, opposition and harmonies, we feel melodic, periodic, or melancholic as the work moves us. Music is a language, an acoustic language, just as visual language describes things whose subtlety is lost when explained in words. Since the intellect is but one mode, that of verbal language, art touches another level when it includes that which cannot be explained. |