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Meditation on Art

We want to breathe the art of wit when we sit for our meditations. Art, from the Art of Altamira to the the Art of the Deal, is, we don't shun this bold statement, first and foremost a celebration. We imagine anthropological researchers digging up objects with no evident usefulness. What to do with them? ...

2 August, 2018

Kamiel Choi

art, artist, artwork, meditation

Essays, Philosophy

But how can art keep us alive when it cannot kill us?

Just now, I was intimidated

Just now, I was intimidated by an indestructible paper cup towering in front of me, a long shadow bulging from its rim. The straw hole in its stained lid vows to annihilate me, its cardboard jacket sinks frivolously in the surface of the table. Sovereignly, he does not move. I ask what do you want? ...

3 April, 2018

Kamiel Choi

art, cup, intimidation, power

Poetry

March 8.

Making the concepts of death and peace converge, how's that for universal religion?

In the Mapuche village near San Martin de los Andes a child held the barrier for the tourists. We walked around; the people had conserved some aspects of their traditional lifestyle. A girl herded some sheep. I photographed some goats. Their ...

12 March, 2009

Kamiel Choi

Andes, art, hitchhiking, Junin, San Martin

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