Friday, July 16, 2004

As much as I've had a love hate relationship with museums, our mausoleums of culture, I realized that there is something civilized even in that, paralleling the idea of honoring the dead, honoring the past, as an institutionalization of heritage. Yes, it means a winnowing down, a filtering out, but at least some pieces, some artefacts survice to explain our attempts at explaining our world, and hopefully inspire more of the same, among future artists, and in the minds of those who pass through the gallery halls. I was also thinking about the idea of immersive baptism, how closely, in some ways, that parallels rebirthing experiences. It's just a drag that once institutionalized, so much of what are valid experiences of that which dwells within and out, our full humanity and divinity, becomes oppressive dogma, rather than exploration, or even a shared language of inquiry. 6:31:32 PM