What Art Means to Sidney Huang

well, like, it's not one thing. you see, the art, well do you see it? we talk about it in seeing language but maybe it's not just seeing, eh man? dude! but art, it's one thing when we talk about making art but sometimes it's a different thing when we see it, when we consume it. like pornography in either case we know it when we see it. art! YEAH!

sometimes it's just craft, artifice, something that is well-made. or it can be something that is found that manages to express to us the similar qualitites of refinement or, alternatively, of power. or of both. it communicates without there being any necessary intentional connection between the maker and audience. it can be something about the craft, the material, the quality of the mimesis or representation if any, or just the message conveyed. and it can be the interplay and the reciprocity from these elements.

the only common thread perhaps, when we're dealing with human art maybe is the quality of mind involved. not necessarily in the production or creation or in the consumption, but somewhere in there. awareness is heightened. attention is provoked or manipulated, sometimes there is wonder. but always awareness is vital!

well we should probably draw a few artificial distinctions here and there. let the traditionalists have some say too. just because one guy can have a spiritual experience in a dungheap shouldn't mean there's any art there, outside of his experience itself maybe, and we don't mean, well I don't mean, maybe some people do, something that's purely subjective when we talk about art. we talk about things! art is things!

( this is what art means to Sidney Huang , Sidney has studied Divinity at The Univeristy of Chicago and is a good egg )