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Art is an act of magic
Art is an act of magic.
There are two worlds. One is the physical world, and the other is the spiritual world. At any point where these two worlds intersect, there is a consciousness – a mind exists. Everybody is, at all times, bringing these two worlds together, causing them to mingle. The artist, however, knows s/he is doing it, and does it with intention.
Think of the physical world as being made up exclusively of “stuff.” That would be minerals, chemicals, molecules, elements, atoms, protons, quarks, and so on. All things that are measurable, weighable, quantifiable, and objectively observable are physical. These things are stuff, just stuff, and only stuff. Even the human body is only stuff, no matter how young and fresh or how old and decayed, is just stuff.
If there were only the one world of physical stuff, nothing could ever be more than just stuff. The problem with the world of stuff is that it is utterly, completely, totally meaningless. It just is.
But then, there is also the spirit world.
Unlike the quantifiable, measurable, weighable world of the physical, the spirit world is made up of nothing but intangibles. Its substance is made up exclusively of that which cannot be defined, things like feelings, emotions, yearnings, all those inner promptings that touch us before we know what has touched us, or why. It’s like strong music without words when heard for the first time, before you’ve made up a story to explain why it affects you as it does.
And that’s the problem with the spirit world. It is utterly, completely, and totally incomprehensible because to understand, the intangible must be attached to the tangible. Or, to say it another way, the physical and the spiritual must be joined. You gottta have a story.
Our human consciousness acts as the valve that allows these two worlds to mix. Or maybe it’s the container that holds the mixture. I really don’t know. But I do know that if the physical was just the physical, and the spiritual was just the spiritual, and if the two never met, then no hunk of CaCo3, however carefully shaped, would ever be the Venus de Milo.
Of course, everybody engages in the mixing all the time, without knowing or thinking about it. Physically, the birth of a child has no meaning. But we feel that it does, and therefore, it does. The same is true of death. Both birth and death are just changes in the current arrangement of stuff – or, at least, they would be, if it weren’t for that intangible sense that there is more to it than that, a feeling that moves though us and attaches itself to the stuff of birth and death.
Everybody does this blending – but the artist knows that s/he is doing it.
The magic act of creation that every artist performs is to reach (somehow. The door seems to be through the imagination) into the world of the spirit, grab hold of something (something intangible? There’s some nifty magic right there), while simultaneously reaching into the physical world, grabbing hold of “stuff,” bringing the two together, and binding them tight.
From that moment on, meaning and substance are one.
What man has joined together, no God may ever tear asunder.
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Re: Art is an act of magic
I love your thought process on this. I find this 'explanation' very deep and very true.
I love the last line......
'What man has joined together, no God may ever tear assunder'.
Good art lives on, forever. Documented, show in galleries or museums. No one can take that away, not even a God/dess. Very appropriate saying! 
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Re: Art is an act of magic
Wow. Great stuff Corbin. I really need to start looking for the magic in things I do. I find certain things to be "tasks" and "chores" even though they really aren't. When I'm creating something from nothing (creating art from mere paints, etc) I need to keep in mind what I am truly doing.
Good thoughts Corbin!
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I guess I don't really "think" when I create. I just concentrate on what it is I want to accomplish.
So far, no beading kit. I hope I get it soon.
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Corbin, I think I have to attribute the fact that I'm a hands-on type of learner. I can't just read about something, I have to be able to do it as I go or I may as well forget it. I had a horribe time in school.
I had to learn how to be so focused on what I was doing, and I carried that over to any art that I do. Even my fractal art that doesn't require a huge amount of thought. At least, it doesn't for me. *shrugs*
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Wow, nice concept! ....sorta similar to the one I just wrote about. Shoulda read this one first prolly, lol! But still, I love how art is what you make it. I don't know about anyone else here, but I just can't resist a fresh piece of drawing paper, a blank canvas, an un-touched hunk of clay, or hey, even people's foreheads! I can't resist, because I see them all as opportunities to project the images that are constantly dancing around in my head as tangible things for other people to see. It truly is a beautiful thing.
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Re: Art is an act of magic
I should link this post to a discussion I found on LA Pagan, they were debating on if art can be used in magick. I love how you put it so eloquaintly.
If intent charges mundane items into magickal tools then the focused intent put into creating runes/altar tiles/religious paintings by creating it will charge it more. To me the harnessing of the chaotic raw matter and molding into something new is the most powerful act one could do.
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Re: Art is an act of magic
Oh, by all means, link this up!
I'm not sure how a person could even argue that artistic expression and magic don't have an intimate connection - I'd even go so far as to say that, if the world/universe was actually created by the conscious intent of a deity, the best way to understand that it is as a work of art through which the deity expresses itself.
This is an old idea, by the way, and is found in one way or another in a lot of religious philosophies (even Christianity) - the world is a manifestation of the creator, and by understanding the world, one can understand the creator, just as an artist is understood by understanding his/her art.
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Re: Art is an act of magic
quote:
de Corbin wrote:
the world is a manifestation of the creator, and by understanding the world, one can understand the creator, just as an artist is understood by understanding his/her art.
Love how that was put ^_^
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