Showing posts with label Jonathan Miller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonathan Miller. Show all posts

Monday, March 24, 2008

Sex and Death

Despite the provocation of the title of this entry- I believe that most transformative art, if not all, deals somehow with one or both of these subjects. Even a pot of flowers- we are looking at both sex and death-
I stumbled across Jonathan Miller's BBC series on atheism- a true revelation which comes at a time when reading Nassim Taleb's book, Fooled By Randomness. It is clear to me that, in a way, both of these men are dealing with the very same subject- the human ape's hardwired fear of annihilation.
Where does art fit in? Perhaps sprung from the very same fear?
Let the chips fall- do they ever fall far from the tree?