Marsha:
Is it like being deeply in love? Painting for me is being deeply in
love. Does metaphysics exclude love? Does the MOQ exclude
love? Love of sky and earth? What do you think? Is there love
within a Code of Art?
woods:
Art is love. Without love no nourishment. Nothing would generate. Hate
suffocates and is such a downer.
The moq is all about love. Rocks love. Love being such a creative force
mellowing a mind gone astray I'd say. Love is grounding. Decadence has opened
my eyes to seeing how rocks are moral. I've always had difficulty with
understanding
this, but decadence is such a lovely explanatory concept for me. Decadence
clearly combines morality with art, at least how I see this. A decay in morals
is a decay in art. A decay in art is a decay in morals. Rocks are a creation
and thus
an artwork. Rocks are totality moral.
Marsha:
You seem so brave. Why are men, in general, afraid to talk about love?
woods:
That's always been hard for me to figure out. My father was emotional and
cared
about people. He showed love. The only thing I can think at the moment is
that
some men don't like to discuss love is love is weak to them. To show any love
is
a weakness and something that can't understand. Some men find thought to be
something to glorify and therefore love being something thoughtful and
calculating,
yet let's call this heart-thinking, some men get disturbed by this kind of
heart-thinking
that goes on in everybody. It's too wild for them and some men feel that
should be
able to control what they think. Heart-thought is already here. It's already
conceptualized.
Some men think they have to come up with what reality is about and since
heart-thought
already induces a certain calculating contribution to what reality is, then
it's difficult for
these kinds of men. Mind-thought can be manipulated more easily and men like
to control
life and make it their own. I find this could be found in women too, don't you
think. Yet,
men have been able to exploit this mind-thought for a long time and have turned
it into
something of their own and the air-waves of communication (books, media,
teachers, etc...) have
been mostly men for some time so this control and authority has something
connective to
do with this. For men to have been able to manipulate mind-thought they've
become
to think it is a more natural right of theirs to be able to continue use this
easily
manipulated tool call mind-thought. When heart-thought comes along it can
scare some
men because it's already preconditioned. You can't mind-think love. Love is
something
we do. Those that don't like to expose a peaceful sharing called love is
something we do
and can't control so we'll love no matter what we think, this disturbs some
people or men in
general due to power positions that I've mentioned they've controlled for some
times. So
this is why men in their effort to control something they can't control called
love, then this
can warp their emotions into an emotion called disturbed anger. I delineate
anger into a disturbed
anger and a more peace induced anger due to some anger is good and helpful.
For example,
if I saw my wife getting physically hurt by somebody else, then I would most
definitely rise to anger and
in the name of peace go after that person, get them away, and hopefully they
will quit fighting. I wouldn't
out of revenge or if the threat is definitely over, keep attacking the person.
That wouldn't help anything.
Marsha:
Doesn't it hurt to keep it locked up?
woods:
Yes.
Marsha:
Maybe it's only Western men. Do you know?
woods:
I don't know. My inclination is this is a human problem and can be found
anywhere in any gender, but
I definitely have noticed that men don't find interest in love being something
significant in
solving and generating any philosophical issues, yet, love is a core moral,
thus, philosophical issue.
Philosophies that don't recognize love and thus can't fathom a constant force
in our lives is blind.
There may be more to this whole discussion of love, but this is what's
comin' out of me head and
heart fur now... I say heart for, and I've realized this for a long time, that
if I'm not feeling and losing
energy in what I'm writing or discussing, then I'm starting to trap myself into
a tiny skull and
shutting the much larger world out of my thinking and that would make for some
poor art indeed. Art
that would matter only to wittle ol'e me. So before I can't feel and I lose
the energy, that's when I
decide to stop to gather and stay open. Ya ever feel this way when you do art?
woods
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