XI.
The Imperative of Art.
The inexistent is
what determines our life, the structure of human constructs. The elements of the inexistent are given
terms to give word, not to name the wordless, but to create the wordless.
Place is outside the inexistent. We believe we leave our artifacts as messages
in a bottle, thrown to the unknowable Place; instead it is the continued sacrifice
we lay at the foot of our idol. Art’s
imperative is the expansion of the inexistent, using word and other than word
to accomplish that expansion of our realm.
In the end, art is not subversive but a tool in the manifest destiny of
non-Place and the structure of the inexistent.