On the eve of
Ganesh festival in India, we pay homage to the religious icon that transcends
myriad manifestations and still remains sacrosanct.
When we appreciate
art, what are we looking at, appreciative about? The colours, form, textural
vocabulary, narrative…? And when we are engaged in that metaphysical
communiqué, away from the mundane, transported to a different level, we are
lost for words that can express the profound feeling that envelopes us; at the
other end, we chose to find solace in wordy articulateness that might sound
sophisticated but convey no real essence.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 28 Mar 09Film segment that helps to explain what the point of burning can be - take a look at the imagery of the temple girders silouhetted against the flames. Fire as an artistic medium. I prefer to watch this with the sound off, feeling that in this excerpt, as viewed in isolation from the rest of the film, the music doesn't add anything.
