Musings on Art & Reality

Reality does not exist as something out there, separate from us. Reality is an embodied experience, existing in the intersection between senses, emotions and thoughts and the unknowable whatever-it-is that provokes these reactions.


The dharma of the true artist or poet is to serve and defend the imagination of the soul, the passions of the heart and the sensuosity of things.


Unlike the unreality of virtual reality, the true virtue of the imagination is to return us to the world in such a way that reality is experienced anew, through a new mediation of sense, emotion or thought.

Dreams, poetry and art works should all broaden and deepen in meaning as we encounter them, not narrow into explanations.