Honest Appraisal

 

 

 

I came up with the question in our printmaking class critic.

While you are making different artwork series, do you have a strong pillar for the content in your heart?

What made you being an artist?

 

Everyone who wants to his/her best in everyday life, but some things are always missing and feel empty…

Why?

 

I got this comments from Jose…

If he/she stays in safe stage where he/she achieved already his/her masterpiece, he/she is no longer an artist, even though he/she is a great artist.

Challenge new area, struggle with it, achieve something and move on to challenge something new, this is the only way to live as an artist, or everyone who wants to live with true self...

 

I had feeing that whoever throws the meaningful questions to the world, he/she must have a great power to bring out something good from other people...

I truly thanks for that.

Is this the meaning of life?

The purpose of finding a “meaning of life” is for ourselves to live better life which is considered for not only enjoying happy life but also living spiritually valuable life.

 

First of all, in order to starting this journey, it is needed to define the position for meaning of being.

Also, it is important to signify the relationship in between past, present and future.

Moreover, it leads us to aware the value, endowment and fruitfulness of life.

 

 

 

 

First thing I can think of is “where do we come from?”

I just opened the book of Genesis, automatically.

 

Genesis start with…

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

One day,

"Let there be light"; God called the light day and night.

A second day,

"Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."

God called the expanse heaven.

A third day,

"Let the waters below the heavens...," the dry land earth and seas...

"Let the earth sprout....," vegetation, plants, trees, seed, fruit...

A fourth day,

"Let there be lights in the expanse of the havens...," for signs, seasons, days and years;

The greater light to govern the day, the lesser light to govern the night,

He made the stars also.

A fifth day,

"Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens."

"Be fruitful and multiply...in the seas...on the earth."

The sixth day,

"Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle, creeps...

"Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over: the fish..., the birds..., the cattle...creeps on the earth."

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him: male and female He created them.

God blessed them;

"Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over... every living thing that moves on the earth."

"Behold, I have given... every thing that moves on the earth which has life…"

God saw that it was very good...

By the seventh day,

God completed His work which He had done; and He rested..., blessed, and sanctified it…

 

Then, I started to find some other people’s comment for that.

I found these words from the philosophy internet site.

It goes…

Ludwig Wittgenstein said,

"What is the use of studying philosophy if all it does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about some abstruse questions in logic, etc., and if it does not improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life?"

Can we apply in our artist role?

 

In conclusion, define the awareness of the value, endowment and fruitfulness for life.

Peter B. Raabe said,

“While the adage that the unexamined life is not worth living is somewhat of an exaggeration, it is certainly true that the examination of a life can lead to the living of a better life.”

It is just starting for my journey to find “meaning of life.”

Look deep inside of our heart.

Indeed, there are words for us.

“Honest appraisal is the starting point for change.”

 

 

 

 

May 2004

S. Rhee