As much as most of us are trying to ignore, the cosmos is growing faster and faster everyday leaving us behind if we don't adjust. But our need for adjustment, even though it gives us the wonders of the progress, leaves us blind to the beauty of things that lure our souls.
Man and women go on with their lives inertially, deepening more and more into a void cycle. Earthly problems take over leaving no place for extramundane things like listening to a marvelous music, reading an exquisite poem or watching an interesting movie.
Ordinary people need artists to shape their thoughts into universal elements that can be used in communicating with ourselves and the world. Every piece of art is meant illustrate a meaningful experience or idea that will impress the viewer or reader, appealing to his or her thirst for justice, thought of mercy, need for compassion or desire for joy. Without a subsequent meaning words don't make a poem, notes don't make a song and images don't make a movie, they are only separate elements of something yet unknown. Similar words can be used in different poems, similar notes in different songs or similar images in different movies, without meaning that the different strings of words, notes or images should carry the same message.
Art is a type of shamanism that without being as precise as science is, has the means of mending our soul. The science of medicine that cures most of the bruises of the body is most of the times helpless dealing with the severe lesions that are usually left on the soul. Shamanism has an ancient history of exploring the depths of the soul and its knowledge is revealed in Lujan Matus' work.
Walking through the jungle of the soul without knowing the path is a concern found in every religion, shamanism being usually assimilated with one. Yet notes or words of a profane love poem act the same of a bible guiding you through a storm of feelings up to the final conquest of heaven. Images will start forming into your mind in the same way a producer composes the scenes of a movie.
Man and women go on with their lives inertially, deepening more and more into a void cycle. Earthly problems take over leaving no place for extramundane things like listening to a marvelous music, reading an exquisite poem or watching an interesting movie.
Ordinary people need artists to shape their thoughts into universal elements that can be used in communicating with ourselves and the world. Every piece of art is meant illustrate a meaningful experience or idea that will impress the viewer or reader, appealing to his or her thirst for justice, thought of mercy, need for compassion or desire for joy. Without a subsequent meaning words don't make a poem, notes don't make a song and images don't make a movie, they are only separate elements of something yet unknown. Similar words can be used in different poems, similar notes in different songs or similar images in different movies, without meaning that the different strings of words, notes or images should carry the same message.
Art is a type of shamanism that without being as precise as science is, has the means of mending our soul. The science of medicine that cures most of the bruises of the body is most of the times helpless dealing with the severe lesions that are usually left on the soul. Shamanism has an ancient history of exploring the depths of the soul and its knowledge is revealed in Lujan Matus' work.
Walking through the jungle of the soul without knowing the path is a concern found in every religion, shamanism being usually assimilated with one. Yet notes or words of a profane love poem act the same of a bible guiding you through a storm of feelings up to the final conquest of heaven. Images will start forming into your mind in the same way a producer composes the scenes of a movie.
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