of art, inherent to it. The predisposition of art thereby confuses reason, and tends to leave art irreducible in terms of language. We can see how art might provoke (sometimes extreme) reactions among those of us for whom irrationality, contradiction and/or the Spirit(-ual) are problematic.

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Representation and art seem to revolve around each other as in a helix. Adjacent to representation for art is the mirror-like operation art can offer its viewer. Consciousness of oneself and consciousness of the appearances of the world and the things in the world (including people) – art seems empowered to affect such perceptual apparatuses in the viewer during the viewing experience, and sometimes long after the initial encounter of viewer with art.

Here the artist re-emerges as both mediator and originator. The art and viewer are acting together in a triangulating formation in the art experience. The artist functions as a mediator, a translator, of the cosmos, for the viewer, by way of the art.