The Absolute Owner Of Art Without Borders
Establish the type of knowledge that guides your motivation in scientific practice, constantly reviewing relations with the art you create.
Theatre, thought Eisenstein, enables man to fictionally crate heroic deeds, to be fictionally passionate about Romeo, to become wise with Faust, to escape all inner problems with the graceful help of Brandt, Rosmer or Hamlet. And the young director sparked up by going forward with his thoughts, noting that this fictional behavior offers a completely real pleasure to the viewer. They feel the hero, have the feeling of martyrdom and are overwhelmed by their own generosity...
Having reached Trubnaia square, Eisenstein stopped in his tracks, seized by hot flashes. Thoughts besieging him like a fever. "What a terrible revelation ! What a horrible mechanism hides in this sacred art I’m serving ! It is not only a lie. Not only a scam. It is poison. A terrible, frightening, poison. Because, actually, if you can fictionally acquire pleasure, who will seek to find in actual achievements what you can get for free, without leaving the comfort of the theatre chair, from which you then get up with the feeling of absolute pleasure?"
The one who would later become a great director, continued dazed on his way. And the picture glimpsed became a nightmare. "I must kill this. Destroy ! " And the thoughts race, run in a mad rush. Yes, destroy it. But who? He, a boy? He who hasn’t as of yet found his place even on the buffer of the Express of artistic creation ! Then, a new thought sneaked into his mind. "First I must master it. And then, destroy it. Learn the secrets of the art. Remove its waves. Master it. Become a master. Then tear its mask off, reveal it. A new phase of our relationships begins." Relationships with art.
Is your personality profile a result of a creation that “devours” its creator, even when you are abstracted from the experience lived through the troubles of an imperfect art?
What horrible mechanism hides in this art that a leader serves? Is this mechanism an application of the principle "the ends justify the means"? Is it an individual and finished creation, incorporated in a vision that is not consistent with the standard of evaluation its own results? Is it a combination of elements that possesses determined values and have the role of transmitting a "disease" of creation?
Before leadership can be reflected in practice, first you must master the art that ennobles your science and imposes your model of thinking. Then destroy it as to strip away its "waves", defects and imperfections.. And the reinvent it by introducing new values, after which presenting it in an indicative way, as being better than previous versions. Only so will you become a master in your field of activity.
But what happens if the art of discovering and promoting this "scientific product", following the use of a set of standards of creation, with unknown values for the elements sought in the middle of prejudices or challenges, does not bestow a greater power of understanding to others?
In this case, a certain monopolization of others’ attention takes place by means that are oftentimes just levers of affirmation and promotion of your own thinking. This is a scam, a terrible poison, because, in fact, it fictionally buys the pleasure of imposing your own laws, considering only you know the truth of your ideas, which you trumpet with such uninterrupted momentum.
Can you cultivate the art of being different in a subtle, refined way, without exaggeration, in an environment where the manifestation of a state of mind directed towards progress is elevated to “symbolic” level?
In the struggle with the means of promoting his own thinking, the leader is the only one that his to suffer if he doesn’t permanently revise his relationships with the art he promotes, if he doesn’t show the truth that hides behind what he builds. Someone on a webpage specified well: "When you will be able to say: I am behind what I represent, as a man… then you will be able to build."
Leadership shouldn’t be the result of a creation that "devours" its creator, indicating possible exhaustions of the waves of research, in confronting what some call "the experience of the impossible". And any attempt of taming it and modifying its truth is doomed to failure, especially if it expresses its quantitative aspect of the phenomenon of total ownership, which creates the feeling of absolute pleasure.
The manifestation of a state of mind directed towards progress is elevated to a “symbolic” level when viewed from the perspective of belonging to a personality that does not support the vulnerabilities of artistic forms, and it is necessary to adopt other practices and to introduce other criteria of appreciation of art.
The Absolute Owner Of Art Without Borders is the leader who succeeds in discovering that exceptional "perpetuum mobile", in a field that is in constant change, which can be beneficial and accepted by all. But at the same time, the leader’s creation, with its forms of expression and its means of promotion, must not create the feeling of a treachery – because, in this case, it will bring only disappointment.
* Note: Ion Barna - Eisenstein, Youth Publishing House, 1966.
