Reasoning the concrete

Ok. New blog name picked, new banner made. Remember my post, The triumphs of the carnal, from earlier this year? It was about my favorite quote, and how I'd like to have it tatooed somewhere, sometime. It hasn't been inked yet, but it will be someday. Somewhere. In the comments for that post, I got into the discussion of what I thought the quote meant and how it applied to art. And, being an artist, how much it meant to me.

I see writing as another form of art. In prose or in poetry, you have tha chance to create images and emotions in the reader's mind. So I put a spin on that quote for my blog name, and viola! Here we are, reasoning the concrete, because the difference between words and images is that words - by their very nature - reason things out. Images leave you to figure things out for yourself, if you can. I kinda try to do both here, wirting and posting images. (I'll be posting more drawings and photos now that I've gotten the hang of the html.)

That favored quote, if you don't want to click the link, is:

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumphs of the carnal.

Note: The image in the background of my new banner is the demon-thing I drew on my purse. Since writing and drawing both sort of "excorcise the demons," I figured it was appropriate.