In her blog Katie asked:
1. Are artist's more comfortable with the concept of "nothingness"?
In her actual blog post she spoke of the different ways and us humans compartmentalize and break things down into groups and analyze things to death so the world does not seem so big or impossible to understand. Putting everything into groups and breaking down things into base parts make us feel safe. Things like the universe, as Katie suggested, scare us. They scares us because they are "infinite" or immeasurable. They are not things that can be simply broken down or explained and as humans this is not okay with us. By saying it is infinite we are at least giving it a word to be assigned to. Since we are not able to break it down we simply cast it off or brush it off as being infinite. We would love to find the end of the universe and pin point the longitude and latitude of the end. This is why we are constantly exploring space, sending out satellites into orbit and sending astronauts into space. Also, Katie mentioned religion and "God" as something to also satisfy our hunger for answers and truth. We create things such as religion or use it as a tool to feel better about our lives, our situation, and the end of our lives. We use this to answer the unanswerable question. So to answer her question on whether artists feel better about nothingness, no I do not believe they do. When they say that their painting means nothing, I think it is a weak answer to an unanswerable question just as we have done with the universe and death and our lives. But why do we need these weak answers, why cannot we simply say there is no answer?
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