The Art Of Pondering

The least any art could do is make people ponder, and it doesn’t even have to be about the piece of art at hand. Art opens space within for exploration of angles, perspectives, context, conceptualisation, interpretation and most importantly the relationship between yourself and the art, which ultimately is a feedback loop of your own self and the interpretation you have of it. Art can mean 7 billion different things to 7 billion different people, and the channels are opened through pondering, and I think pondering must be the new gateway drug ( unless its banned in the future, then we are all shit out of luck ). Some see similarity in art whilst other's see vastly different aspects to it. Poetry is my favourite art form, shocker I know! The language, the in-between space for your own meanings, the fraying of edges, the entanglement of thoughtforms, the way we decipher meaning from it is like sucking the air right out of our own spirit to renew ourselves, to lighten the spirit and feel our flesh disintegrating into the unfolding of the words that run down our perceptive lenses. The open ended interpretations allow us the beauty of exploration into our own psyche, to meet ourselves in the depths, to sit on the fence of rationality and insanity, ( maybe a better analogy is to “sit on the fence of our metaphysical mystic self and our logical rational self” they don’t often agree with things) to have conversations and watch our thoughts do backflips with the gymnastics of the mind, to high jump over the unimportant, to make room for more meaning, and at the end of the day to expand the self in all ways. The art is a gift, the art is a reflection of the inner, the art can be used as a magnifying glass to peer into the shadow world and understand the self on levels that have never been reached. All of our senses are involved, our emotions, our intellect, our spirit can all be touched, maybe we are even in-sync for a brief few minutes with nature, with every part of our self, and pain is not absent from this process, in fact it is highly probable it was the driving force for the art in the first place. To reach the real depths we have to go into the jungle and fall on the thorns and swords of our internal observatory.

Disclaimer: Although art, self observation and analysis is serious and deep work, just don't forget your sense of humour when you reach the surface again!

~Leya Hunter.