Abstract art and reproducibility, December 2007
Abstract art is the creative production of something no-one else could produce. It is a function of an individual's experience - summoned from within them by magic - the result of a shamanic trance. It is the reflection of the vast complexity of a single mind.
Although anyone could copy any image I might produce, they would not choose to paint what I paint, how I paint it. The point is not whether someone else could technically create a work, but whether they would originate it.
A piece of abstract art is not a copy of a visual scene; it is a unique visual novelty, rescued from oblivion by the one person able to do so. It is a glimpse of another universe, revealed to us by the creator of that universe. If the artist does not paint it, it will be lost to the world forever.
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