The Search Entry #2: Epiphany

3-5 am of August 3, 2004

“…and all of these things serve to fuel underlying structure and form, for none of these alone are the thing invented. They help to explain the thing that is the rose but they are not the rose. 

Art is the new thing: a new expression.

A poem uses words, language, multiple meanings of singular words or phrases, classical to contemporary form and structure, sentences, strings of sentences, the constituents of poetry.   But they are not the thing itself. They evoke the image or feeling. 

So many poems about love and so many more poems about love are possible, each poem being the new thing. Poetry, as art, is making being from non-being. Creating something where there was nothing. Poetry is that beauty. Music is that beauty. Dance is that beauty. 

Visual art is that beauty. 

…searching for the essence, knowing that this is unachievable, and rightly so. For life, for being human, is to be able to ‘see’ many things, then nothing, then the many, then nothing.

  …movements in all fields are collections of artists, people, who can identify with the ‘new’ form of understanding and expression…

…those who read poetry, who read prose, dance and experience dance, who listen to music search for the same thing.  Those who collect search for this same thing. Art allows one to experience.  

Good art allows re-experiencing. Over and over again.” 

~ Edward Eberle

“The Search” is dedicated to examining the artistic process, something which Ed Eberle has spent decades thinking and writing about. Through our passions and creativity we are able to express feelings, communicate our thoughts, and create something entirely new. The tools we use, poems and stories, visual art, dance and so on, all represent a feeling or a message. But as Ed has stated, “none of these alone are the thing invented.” 

 

What is it that we as artists truly take away from the process? Is it merely the finished product, the sculpture, the painting, the song, the story? Or is it a new understanding of where those pieces of art are born from? What inspires this? And, what choices are made for them to exist? as we see them? 

Are new insights gained with each attempt we make in the creative process? 

Entry #2 in the series "The Search"