I am posting this for Rose:
In a message dated 11/4/00 2:29:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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!!! I think they are very beautiful
lyrically and melodically (she is among my favorite
musicians), but I find her songs very cerebral. It's
like the emotions are transformed into beautiful
multicolored jewels and the metaphorical beauty is
moving, but I don't cry in response to it, even though
many of the songs are very melancholy.
When I think of Joni's artistry I think of Beauty and the beauty she creates
endears her to us.............
The Book of Changes on Grace/ Beauty
She is an artist. She has the ability to discover and delineate forms and
patterns that have a universal meaning. Her work communicates with others
through the commonly understood universality of its forms-i.e., it's beauty.
As an artist whatever she expresses, communicated with varying degrees of
success, is only a medium for the beauty of expression, which has little to
do with its personal meaning. There is something universal in what she
expresses that communicates to others perfectly---clearly, directly,
untransformed and untransformable. The artist is proverbially misunderstood.
Her work is not the content of her work or life, but its form. The beauty of
Isadora Duncan, for example is what her life was and not its intent: her
story communicates deeply---a graceful fluttering between joy and tragedy. A
tintype of her in a dance pose, however, arouses twitters at least as often
as awe and the dance theories and education ! theories that were the
overwhelming effort of her life are unfamiliar to most people. She is to
others something else other than what she intends. It may be that this
activity of hers that seems to her ordinary, natural, easy, thoughtless
seems
to us to be the prototype of the human condition and a reflection of
universal truth: a work of art. True artistic genius. Happiness.
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