Maybe. But if they could, would we be able to see it?
Coreysays
They sure can through the medium of the living.
…not exactly the creepy “I was possesed by the spirit of elvis! He made me sing Blue Suede Shoes while I was deep frying a turkey!”
Dead people influence my playing all the time. The influence usually stems from something they did when they were alive…but I guess the real art would be their influence combined with another individual’s creativity. The result being something new which wouldnt have happened under other circumstances.
“[Death] follows [artists] around like their shadow, and I think that’s one of the reasons most artists are so conscious of the vulnerability and nothingness of life.” — Francis Bacon (the artist, not the philosopher)
I’d like to think that somewhere out there is a whole field of ghost art study, likely written in German around the time of vitalism and Mary Shelley and all that (“der geisterkunst”?)
There’s also a joke to be made about a ghost’s choice of mediums…
Laura klinksays
ones past – ghosts – are always there.
suppressed memories or those floating on the surface, they influence just like those in life do.
nothing read,studied or engrained about this subject – just me an my personal ghosts that stir my creative juices come to light w/this subject.
And boo to you too.
The subject of ghosts can make art, though I’ve always wondered why they’ve been simplified to a sheet with a ragged edge and two holes for eyes. Where does that come from? Is pac-man to blame?
A ghost is the suited-ness of a situation to a personality that is not present.
When you are in a situation that is suited to you there is no ghost because you fill the role that the situation calls for.
When you are in a situation that you are not suited to there is a ghost because you see in the negative space of a role not being filled the one that ought to fill it and see that one as other than you.
Imagining that one to be somone who used to inhabit that situation and is now absent is natural, most situations become suitible to a person by a person living them long eneough
A ghost is mearly an unfullfiled role and as such can create nothing, but can inspier a person to create a vision of the one who could fill the role, it can also influance a person to become the one who can fill the role
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Maybe. But if they could, would we be able to see it?
They sure can through the medium of the living.
…not exactly the creepy “I was possesed by the spirit of elvis! He made me sing Blue Suede Shoes while I was deep frying a turkey!”
Dead people influence my playing all the time. The influence usually stems from something they did when they were alive…but I guess the real art would be their influence combined with another individual’s creativity. The result being something new which wouldnt have happened under other circumstances.
Is that what you mean?
Anything that exists can make art.
So, no, ghosts cannot make art.
“[Death] follows [artists] around like their shadow, and I think that’s one of the reasons most artists are so conscious of the vulnerability and nothingness of life.” — Francis Bacon (the artist, not the philosopher)
I’d like to think that somewhere out there is a whole field of ghost art study, likely written in German around the time of vitalism and Mary Shelley and all that (“der geisterkunst”?)
There’s also a joke to be made about a ghost’s choice of mediums…
ones past – ghosts – are always there.
suppressed memories or those floating on the surface, they influence just like those in life do.
nothing read,studied or engrained about this subject – just me an my personal ghosts that stir my creative juices come to light w/this subject.
And boo to you too.
I love making cryptic posts like this. I get to hear from all my smart readers… :-D
Art is a human function. Apes don’t do it. Dogs don’t do it. Humans do.
“Chance is not art, except by chance.”
— Ferlinghetti
So no.
Art can make ghosts, though.
art is living
ghosts are dead
so ghosts can’t but zombies can cause their the living dead
(thank you that’s the best question I’ve been asked this year)
raptor claus out
The subject of ghosts can make art, though I’ve always wondered why they’ve been simplified to a sheet with a ragged edge and two holes for eyes. Where does that come from? Is pac-man to blame?
No idea! Let me know if you find out.
A ghost is the suited-ness of a situation to a personality that is not present.
When you are in a situation that is suited to you there is no ghost because you fill the role that the situation calls for.
When you are in a situation that you are not suited to there is a ghost because you see in the negative space of a role not being filled the one that ought to fill it and see that one as other than you.
Imagining that one to be somone who used to inhabit that situation and is now absent is natural, most situations become suitible to a person by a person living them long eneough
A ghost is mearly an unfullfiled role and as such can create nothing, but can inspier a person to create a vision of the one who could fill the role, it can also influance a person to become the one who can fill the role