Rainer Maria Rilke Primal Sound Analysis

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On a stifling summer night in Connecticut, I found myself attempting to bring life to wilted roses. Restoring grace with florid colors and fluttering brushstrokes, I crafted my own narrative from crumpled leaves and somber petals. Color soaked into the fibers of my canvas and gave it a heartbeat, pulsating in time with the movements of my right hand. The evidence of my latest compulsion adorned my easel, my shirt, and the newspaper-smothered floor surrounding me. My workspace had gradually consumed more of my room than I had ever planned on surrendering; my favorite tea mug had become a container for paint-muddled water after too many accidental stirrings with my brush. I paint in what is probably a vain effort to control the world in which I live, recreating it in a manner which satisfies my sense of what the world should be and look like. I strive to satisfy what Kandinsky calls an “inner need,” a vision that hides behind my eyelids which I struggle to render, preserve, and relive. This quest to pluck truths from darkness and create connections between ideas and people brings with it clarity and happiness, and a validation of self that comes with the empathy of other humans. …show more content…

What guarantee is there that the five senses together cover the whole of possible experience? There are gaps between our fingers, just as there are gaps between our senses. These gaps hold the darkness within which hides the connections between events, the answers to impossible questions; all of which, our human eyes are incapable of seeing. The limits of our understanding concern both science and art, which attempt to draw connections through these gaps using what we already

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