8.25.2012

figure / ground

Were there not a different aesthetic sensibility by which we could contrast our own, then how would we set our art apart? We can fight the background, but we shouldn’t wish it away. It is the necessary contrast, and we should respect it as such.

2 comments:

Conrad DiDiodato said...

Tell that to Silliman and Watten before they do more damage.

JforJames said...

I'm comforted by the thought that they too are background (noise) to other kinds of poetry.