The Metaphor

The world of expression, regardless of the language, would be too poor, and too trite without the metaphor. We rely on metaphor to convey intensity and add weight to our message to just the degree we desire. We rely on metaphor to add subtlety, beauty and grandeur to our expressions.

A lot of art relies on metaphor. Especially interesting is art that is open to interpretation, because every person exposed to the art, essentially creates his/her own metaphor. In this way, art not only has genesis in metaphor, but also inspires metaphor. If you think about it, it's pretty remarkable.

A related subject is the experience of art itself. We all experience the same art in different ways, both in the sensory and the intellectual terms.

What I have to share here is quite profound. Pete Eckert is a blind photographer. That's right, a blind photographer. Like Beethoven, he lost the primary sense that he needed for his creative work, but could not stop doing what he did. There is, however, a huge difference. Beethoven would have definitely experienced his compositions from his years of deafness, in his mind. He would have heard the tunes in his mind, though he could never actually "hear" them performed. Eckert's work, on the other hand, actually transforms a form of experience (acoustic) into a different form (visual).

Check out his work here:

http://www.peteeckert.com/photos.php

I think it has a unique quality to it.

Really left me feeling that everything around is just photons, and we perceive "forms" just by Maya.