Art of Love/Love of Art/ Is and Mirror Image

love is art and art is love
two sides of one coin
imaginary,. alchemy, illusion
constructing from the unconstructed
conjuring
making man from dust
that is art and love
cooking; making goodness from whatever ingredient
whatever one is given
how ever horrendous in its raw unadorned, just harvested alive blood breathing formation
turning ugly into beauty
and indifferent to nourishing, life giving

who knew. art is love and love is art
the self gives rise to self/mirror images reflecting

David Simmons

reading this month's Smithsonian magazine, i come across an article about roseanne cash (daughter of you know who) and a singer/song writer in her own right. the article focuses on her love of theoretical physics and how that informs her music (she says her songs are about the maddening quantum physics of love). given the musician's focus on life and love, she asks the question: "did art create love?" what do you think, FB?

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    Maven Huggins

    ha!
    what is love?
    where did that word come from?
    
    is love a word and image used to masque undelightful truths of our projections and cravenness?
    
    wow. i am surprising myself here. but your question, "did art create love?" seems to be a watershed that sends me to check source
    
    just makes /sends me thinking..

    
    
  • Maven Huggins does the tangible create the intangible? : > "did art create love?"

    
    
  • David Simmons being an artist, i thought you might have something to say about it, maven. many of us have experienced that sense of lust, romance, and attachment that can signify "love." but why is it do hard to define exactly? and why is it captured so much easier by artists and their art?

    
    
  • David Simmons that "do" should be a "so" (crazy autocorrect!)

    
    
  • Maven Huggins i wonder if anything i do, Except cooking, I would call love. Interestingly indeed and enough, I have always seen, construed, constructed that my cooking and who I do it for, is LOVE> that one thing. .for so much of my soul is there, my greatest and most loftiest intention, all goodness, or the alchemy of making anything good...I cant imagine if any of my art work is as love.
    
    But given your comment, i now see the posit in a different light.. perhaps the answer to this : "many of us have experienced that sense of lust, romance, and attachment that can signify "love." but why is it do hard to define exactly? and why is it captured so much easier by artists and their art?" is because art is itself just energy, which is lust, romance, attachment", and note, not love. anything but love. I have an old poem that seems amazing in my mind for it titles and muses, Anything But Lov/e Called Lov/e..but in art there are no forms, or rules, or boxes just the flow of energy and inspiration..
    
    i hate to write it but even earlier, i wondered, "what is art" but art can be pointed to , exhibited, so it is less so a question, but really, i want to write, "the art of constructing the unconstructed"...and that is it isnt it? art is this thing that has no name. no form. no nothing...it seems to be the highest form of alchemy...so like love, an illusion and dream gives wake to another, love.
    
    LOL
    
    I love it. discussions and circles like these make me see myself in a grand lecture hall...with enraptured students not looking at the clock. (class over)
    
    lol