Katy's Canvas: merry-go-where? round?

Ballet by Radicalfashion

what we’re used to as a generation is a force-fed stockpile of moving images and sounds…a generation so exposed to imagery in advertising, books, videos, and art at such a high speed that we can hardly begin to slow it down to appreciate one image, one detail, and where it came from. contemporary music is a combination of an infinite number of synthesizers that can be adapted from any Beatles song, any classic jazz, any Beethoven. this infinite supply of aesthetic material is adapted from what has come before us and can now be produced so simply, so flawlessly that we hardly recognize what is and isn’t real in sound any more…we can’t tell what’s been created by guitars and what’s been created by computers. our generation lives in a world where virtual reality is a paradox, since what is virtual to us IS reality. any material can be digitally manipulated and thus our imaginations have grown to encompass all the possibilities of life and beyond. now, anything we can imagine can become a part of reality, even if it only exists in our paintings, our films, or our songs…
but I would argue that aesthetic productions such as these contain even more reality than we do. as mortal human beings, our temporariness is very evident. individuals can only do so much in their lifetime. it’s almost as if our existence on earth is a mere illusion. if you think about it, “illusions” usually refer to a brief occurrence, like the illusion of a shadow or movement which disappears almost within the second you see it. we are these shadows. we reflect the world that we create. these reflections of life are manifested in pieces of art, whether it be sound or images or writing… whatever you as an individual can produce.
these cultural artifacts are truly what make up reality, because as opposed to our temporary lives that dissolve almost as soon as they appear, the pieces of art, the characters we create on cartoons and in films, the music we make…these things last. these things thrive beyond our lifetimes and show glimpses, illusions, of what we were.. with technology and a breadth of ideas already brought forward by the men and women who came before us, these things are getting easier and easier to produce, to share, to reflect and perfect upon the artistic creations of the past.
with the world getting smaller and possibilities getting bigger, now more than ever we can accurately represent our commentary on the world. we have the tools to create anything we wish, anything we can think up. the impact of our creations won’t be necessarily within our lifetime, but our ideas will be passed down, fragmented, to the eternal world of art, film, music, advertising and literature. with the new reality of the digital world, we can store our aesthetic information in a dimension that cannot physically be destroyed, so that future generations can easily access this ever-increasing database of what we find beautiful and relevant.. to see further into their own imaginations, to create what is inside their heads and innovatively reproduce what their generation is thinking, feeling, seeing, and meaning..

artist Wayne White paints words onto canvas,
the one above reads:
“Uh, I'm Lookin' For The Archaic Cave Of The Unconscious”
with this sort of innovative art, we know exactly what was on his mind when he painted the one below-