Art Will Save The World

Art did save the world once or twice. at least. All ocean lovers know Roger Payne saved the whales with whale songs that you can dub into any music and it always fits like a bridge to a garden to a lake to Monet’s lily pads. My man Monet trailblazed bold new lily breeds scoring radical unheard of colours from the savvy lily breeder. He grew the pond even bigger and his garden saved the world of painting gardens and houses with a garden pond or a view on it. Good on him for standing out there in full determined winter daylight on the weekends because after work its dark at 4. He really did paint a room full of white snow paintings though, without a camera to click the light quick before the hands freeze and cannot close the shutters. I can’t wait to get the gardeners to carry out the crappy canvases and burn them on the bonfire of hell realm paintings like Monet did when he was vexed. Blame it on the gardeners they might have to say.

Gardeners save the world better than they saved Monets grotty old botched up paintings, but they just carried out orders from Monet the beligerent old bastard when he was old and grumpy and in his raging fury could not rake in the leaves off the scene with a paintbrush. Bet he crossed out details when his poor vision blocked the view.

Bet those pigments blazed brighter on those bonfires than the stars or the candles built from whale brains back then. Blubber. The majority of the French whaling ships were lost during the Anglo-French War (1793-1802). I wonder if the whalers were also pigment dealers.

2. Hundertwasser

Hundertwasser saved the rain, the whales, the trees, not the hungry fish, but the forest, the city, the seas and thats pretty good going for a life of building buildings painting printing sailing rainy days and rainbows and dying on a big streamlined boat back to Austria. He became a tree and saved the tourists more arty places to go in Kawakawa.

Now we have a monumental tribute wshere we can stop at the beautiful round room and contemplate saving all kinds of things as we drive north east west or south along state highway 1 which fits to the millions of straight lines in the pocket. Art saved the Kawakawa world.

3. Werner Herzog

Then there was Werner and his 2d 3d world. I love the way he says forever. The man who will stand forever in front of a stream when he talks about the whys and the wherefores of his documentary styles. Good sound trick Herzog. The thoughts and ideas cannot hold because the mind is busy wandering and trickling through the telemeres to wire up a connection. His stories are his. Thoughts merge with landscape and the true artist stands at the edge of an ordinary stream like a legend from an epic saga. Transforming the mundane to the sacred. Like the God of black and white 2d/3d blends. My wheels of life revolve around the vivid images and Werner Herzog is the Kalachakra sage. Making deep moving movies about those who deliver the cups of tea and the low key film camera smuggled in and out to shoot Manjushri rolling down the hill at Mount Kailash. What a hero chyap ga lo Kiki so ha! I asked for the quote official and the Austrians said yes cool.

“I see planets that don’t exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.”

Werner Herzog

4. Jump the Gun

Art has a life of its own. Art can but need not. Downstream, drops of rain stir the muddy thoughts: which world will art save, and will we want to save that world?

If art will not save the world what will? Do we need to save art, or let the world slide down the barrel of the gun we jumped.

5. Enter Discontinuity

Full stop. Period.