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Art versus Reality

Friday, October 6th, 2006

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Art performs a function. Artists, I’m going to assert, are literally the “dreamers” of our culture. Through their work, they give rise to “coded dreams” that we can all look at (as when we awaken in the morning). We can make use of those visions — which will be at times nightmarish, at times beautiful — as windows to otherwise unavailable insights into ourselves. Art offered us nothing less than a bridge to Alternative Experience@

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