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wickershells · 7 months

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One of the attitudes that frustrates me most about the mainstream response to art these days is the general insistence that it must impart some grand moral lesson or enlighten you to something you did not already know. Art can and very often does exist merely as a reflection or portrayal or expression of something otherwise unseen. You write a poem about grief not to illustrate how to cope with it but to write about grief. To embody the disembodied and make it solid, tangible, palpable

#and even this is somewhat limiting to what art can achieve and why we are appealed to art in the first place #nothing is ever extensive or accurate when it comes to human experience and inclination. we are ultimately fickle beings #this is why I hate the ‘too much sex onscreen’ arguments. sex does not have to justify itself existing in art because art is made by humans #and sex is human. also a lot of arguments against perceived ‘torture/trauma porn’ as if suffering is not also acutely human #no you do not need to watch salò to understand why/that fascism is bad. but then what is the point of engaging with anything at all #and not every mentally ill or traumatised character has to survive their struggle. suicide is human therefore deserving of #artistic elucidation just like everything else in the world. peace and love on planet earth. sensitivity can exist without censorship #log

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