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an explanation

"Regarding the discordant elements in my work, I think this is something that has slowly crept into my work, semi-consciously. When an abstract idea such as art is placed under the microscope of language it becomes something else. Much like the western empirical approach of the laboratory, which paradoxically is and is not the experience. That is, to observe an element of nature outside its nature, offers only part of the experience. Surely, when a piece of art is scrutinized to criticism and analyses, it shifts into a different realm. In the case of my work, I had people sharing their opinion on art, its meaning and purpose. Some of the answers were contradictory, in battle with someone elses opinion. In other cases, there was a common ground. My interest is how, through a common idea, art in this case, so many different opinions arise. Although perceptions differ, all are speaking on a single theme. Imagine we are looking at a diamond. But we are standing opposite one another. Y...