[full size]I and his I, by Nicola Coco, Miami, 2024

“The seat of the soul is where inner world and outer world touch each other. For nobody knows himself, if he is only himself and not also another one at the same time.””The same phenomenon which causes the child to scream with delight may give birth, in the mind of an earnest experimenter, to a dazzling vision of truth. In the artist these contrasting reactions seem to combine or merge, producing the ultimate one, the great catalyzer called realization. Seeing, knowing, discovering, enjoying – these faculties or powers are pale and lifeless without realization. The artist’s game is to move over into reality. It is to see beyond the mere ‘disaster’ which the picture of a lost battlefield renders to the naked eye. For, since the beginning of time the picture which the world has presented to the naked human eye can hardly seem anything but a hideous battleground of lost causes. It has been so and will be so until man ceases to regard himself as the mere seat of conflict. Until he takes up the task of becoming the ‘I of his I’.”

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