Hubris engages the pursuit of nemesis.
Thus are fortunes changed in the Greek tragedies, and the mighty decline and fall.
These are cautionary tales of cultural moment and permanence. In the mind's eye, Icarus against the sun, Orpheus turning at the threshold of the underworld, crying out "O Eurydice, look upon the world I have won you back to!"
The artist must live in reality, regardless of the ways in which worlds and visions might be expressed and represented through artistic works. To do otherwise invites disaster, arrayed in myriad forms.
Thus are fortunes changed in the Greek tragedies, and the mighty decline and fall.
These are cautionary tales of cultural moment and permanence. In the mind's eye, Icarus against the sun, Orpheus turning at the threshold of the underworld, crying out "O Eurydice, look upon the world I have won you back to!"
The artist must live in reality, regardless of the ways in which worlds and visions might be expressed and represented through artistic works. To do otherwise invites disaster, arrayed in myriad forms.
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