All expression is contextual
All expression is contextual
By Robert Bettmann
5/9/05
All expression is contextual.
All expression occurs on at least two levels: the direct and the metaphorical.
The words we say and write, the clothes we wear, the glances we steal, the love we make, and the love we don’t. And, the art we make.
As artists we learn to make choices. This is called “learning a technique.” Be it someone else’s technique or our own. The thing is, every form of expression has in it the root of prior expression. This is why I say that all expression is contextual. No matter what type of recluse or rebel one is, still, one harbors the images and relationships, the techniques of expression, that one has experienced earlier in life. And though one might consciously reject every manner of connection to those experiences – that in itself leaves one with the context of not expressing in those ways that one has seen/experienced/felt, and therefore frames the art to an even higher degree.
All expression is contextual. Technique gives you choices about which context one wants to reference.