kunst pole elu

If art comes just from art, it loses its power and becomes decorative. I never create art to be decorative. I don't like this idea of aesthetic beauty - a beautiful frame, nice colors that go well with the carpet. To me art has to be disturbing. It has to ask questions and have some kind of prediction of the future within it. It has to have different layers of meaning. Each generation has to take what is needed at that time. But it should not be something that just reflects daily life, like a newspaper. You read the newspaper today; tomorrow it's old. Art has to have a spiritual value and something that opens certain states of consciousness, because we are losing ourselves so much. The main thing for me is this total separation. We are facing a separation of body and mind in the future that has already begun. Heaven's Gate, the computer sect in America that committed suicide in order to join the spaceship hiding behind the comet, was very interesting to me. Now we are entering the twenty-first century and, as Paul Virilio has said, we are sitting at home with the body in one space, but we are everywhere with the mind - by the Internet, by computers, zipping through the world. The body is becoming something very heavy, an obstacle. This separation will become so disastrous that body and mind eventually must come back together. And art has to have the answers.