Rafi Műnz - Cosmology, Art & nonsence - רפי מינץ - קוסמולוגיה, אמנות, הבלים

Rafi Műnz | Art & Nonsense
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What is Art? Who am I and why
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[ Last update: 19.8.2010 ]

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The universe changes constantly, you know...
A legend has it that King Wen saw a turtle whilst
pondering about life on the banks of old river Lo.
On the turtle’s back, the Chinese king saw the 8 Trigrams
that form the basis to the “Book of Changes” (I Ching).
According to traditional Chinese culture this book enables
to define and analyze any given or imaginary situation and
provides counseling on how to improve one’s condition.
The essence of this wisdom is based on examining changes that occur in the universe during different cycles of time.

I chose the turtle as my emblem and drew my own version of it, not only for its historical connotation, but also because I believe in things developing slowly & organically like the turtle's gait. “Carrying my Home with me” – as does the turtle – is in my opinion the essence of the insight that we can gain when adopting this understanding as a way of life.

Watching the turtle below, you may observe the mockery in the transformations over time and the endless repetition of whatever we go through in life.

You must have noticed by now that this text
leads
to a rather philosophical path, namely Cosmology.
If you are into more frivolous stuff
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Apart from being occupied with more Metaphysical topics
Rafi Münz (Refael Ziv, full name) is an Artist painter, master of color & calligraphy and Sculptor in different media.
Living in Giv’at Ada, close to Wadi Ara,
at the back of Kafr Kara, doing his best to breath freely & enjoy life.
As for Art, I cannot really provide a satisfactory definition but I guess everything is.
I only know that art does not belong to “authorized” artists only. Let me save you the verbosity about “Art is in the soul of everybody” because, if we watch children, we will realize that it is exactly so. If every human being actually develops with age (?) and if, for our own good reasons, we do not prove it in our own lives (so that art stays in the hands of children and stops there...) may be we ought to take action, or nothing will happen.
The different arts are nothing but tools of personal expression for the creators. Employing of the arts for financial aims does not necessarily have much to do with professional or artistic criteria. Our desperate struggle for “who is listening to me?” is a quotidian phenomenon. On the same basis there is not much connection between acting well/beautifully/correctly and being rewarded/credited/famous for those actions.

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