Solipsism

Posted on | July 28, 2010 |

Solipsism is the all-too-human desire to look past difficult things and pretend they aren’t there.

I like this decorated cow image, because it reminds us, perhaps, about agriculture, animals, and our rooted-ness in this earth we ignore so readily.

We could just as easily say it’s a metaphor for the balance necessary in the Arts. We can get lost in colorizing an image, playing with it, and forget that there is a real world with real demands. The existence of beauty does not, alas, remove ugliness, any more than Marie Antoinette’s “Let them eat cake”, said to the starving people of France, saved her from the Revolution.

The role of the Arts in our world has never been more important.

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