Os simbolos sao apenas garrafas vazias

"... Quando Montaigne disse: "Connais-toi toi-meme" [conhece-te a ti mesmo], quis dizer que a unica abordagem util da vida eh conhecer a si mesmo. O que voce experimenta no exterior eh na verdade o que voce experimenta no interior. Eu tenho uma citacao [para voce] que se relaciona a essa ideia: "Nao gosto de cortar, gosto do cortador. Nao gosto de fazer, gosto do fazedor. Nao gosto do assunto, gosto do professor. Nao gosto da arte, gosto do artista..." Louise Bourgeois (picture) - Destruction of the father, Reconstruction of the father (p.307)


"...The artist builds around himself his own solitude , such is his fate (Ortega y Gasset). To paint is to decide for silence. While the discourse of religion – cult and ritual – undergoes demythologization, the "communicative rationality" (Habermas) becomes remythologized: the linguistic turn of modernity, fetishization of media-created discourse and images.
In art, one is not besides oneself, but remains simply and totally in communion with oneself. To be exiled even within one’s community (Kierkegaard, Ortega y Gasset) is to be separated from the mass – "my circumstance" - , from the "crowd that is untruth" (Kierkegard), it means to recover "the flesh of the world" (Merleau-Ponty), it is a transgression of modernism, logocentrism , logophilia, and the herd, a transgression of plurality that eradicates difference.
The leveling of pasts, uncontrollable multiplication, the copy of copies which allows neither original nor origin to exist (Deleuze), the "absolute fake" (Eco), are offsprings of a present without depth and a vacuum of memories: the eternal return asparodic (Deleuze), the modern and neo-modern age and its consummation as a self-perpetuating arrangement (Heidegger). The main value of a mass-production is rather iconographic than artistic, a charade of copies (Zimmer)..." Stefan Arteni - Otherwhere, otherwise
http://www.stefanarteni.net/writings/Shodo/Shodo.html