its looking rather stormy outside at the moment.
i for one am hoping that there will be a few flashes of lightning and some booms of thunder in the near future.
why must it always rain in london, but rarely storm?
i can no longer handle this soul-numbing endless drizzle.
i shall do a rain dance and beg nature for a storm so that london can be washed into the sea. while drowning i will discover atlantis and be home.
or perhaps i am still in need of that change i mentioned a while back.
i for one am hoping that there will be a few flashes of lightning and some booms of thunder in the near future.
why must it always rain in london, but rarely storm?
i can no longer handle this soul-numbing endless drizzle.
i shall do a rain dance and beg nature for a storm so that london can be washed into the sea. while drowning i will discover atlantis and be home.
or perhaps i am still in need of that change i mentioned a while back.
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It's pretty cool being out in the middle of the wilds in heavy rain, and eventually getting back to your hotel, a few miles away, soaked to the bone, no feeling in your feet or fingers, cheeks stinging from cold/hail/wind. And then it hurts when you get in a slightly warm shower, to warm up. We're too comforted most of the time.
Yes there is cool stuff emerging and for me it also merges in with the re-uses of 'western' materials (light bulbs, car tyres and soda cans being common materials) which has always interested me. Beautiful clever stuff in the Hornimans museum for example, or the Oceanographic museum in Paris. But there is a 'danger'
For example the Australian aborigines have a very specific iconography and 'style' to their paintings (pointilist to be trivial about it), which is very linked to their vocal history and storytelling traditions - If you've never read "Songlines" DO.
The aboriginal style has now become very collectable and there are some individual aboriginals working in the fine art world while still using the traditional visual style, but using the modern western 'oil on canvas' etc. This is all good in terms of 'Art' developing, but there is the caveat that originally, culturally to them as a people, it wasn't 'Art' it was about worship and respect of the land and the animal spirits, about mapping the land and telling stories... so the visual aesthetic remains but the reason behind it fades?
Same could be kinda pointed at us westerners having for example Tahitian or Japanese style tattoos? They come from a visual language that we can nolonger read beyond as decoration.
Another result, though maybe not directly, is that unique methodologies disappear. For example the Aboriginals (and I believe 'Red' and 'Indian' Indians too) all have a tradition of sandpaintings - images created entirely with different coloured sands and powders. 'Artworks' that have a specific life, for the duration of a ceremony. Needless to say this skill is not being learnt by the new generations and so if fading... possibly because of it's transitory nature
Meanwhile I think the growth of grafitti in western society has something to do with a return in modern man to needing to make a personal mark on his/her landscape, a kind of unknowing return to 'primitive' behaviours, the same for the growth of tattooing and piercing - the desire for a unique marking and identifying of oneself and important personal events, in some ways a dramatic act as a physical and/or spiritual 'rite of passage' in a society where all real such rites of entry into adulthood, are gone or fading.
y' see I can go on ( and on ) too