Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'
Interpretation
The quote encourages envisioning a vibrant, dynamic world full of color and movement, prior to preconceived notions.
Stan Brakhage's quote invites us to imagine a reality that transcends linguistic constraints, where the beauty of the world is seen through its colors and movements rather than limited by words. It suggests a state of pure perception that is devoid of the semantic interpretation we usually impose on our experiences, encouraging a deeper appreciation of the visual and sensorial life surrounding us.
In practice
This quote can be shared during an art exhibition to inspire attendees to view the artwork with fresh eyes.
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of βGreen?β How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?
How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.
I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.
I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
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