The medium is only relevant in that it provides the wow, neeto, cool superlatives needed to adorn the idea … ultimately the medium will weigh down the idea and hold it captive, thus transforming the idea into a categorical component of human deference … it’s at this point the idea must sever it’s ties to the chasms of the artists mind and remain forever beholden to the whims of the observer of the art object.
There is no better example of such phenomenon than the rhetorical perversion, perpetrated by craftsman called musicians on music.
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