GEORGES LENTZ - composer / sound artist
 
 

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Complexity/Simplicity     I see the world around me as complexity and simplicity - complexity WITHIN simplicity, and simplicity WITHIN complexity. The scientific approach to understanding the world is, very broadly speaking, one of zooming into the detail of the physical world's breathtaking intricacy. A more philosophical/spiritual/artistic/religious view might tend towards stepping back from such overwhelming and awe-inspiring complexity (most of which we ignoramuses are not skilled to fully comprehend anyway!), and contemplating possible patterns, perhaps even a "meaning" or "big picture" behind and beyond all the extraordinary detail. To me, both attitudes are valid and necessitate each other. In art, no great work is ever just simple or just complex, it is always both. Any work of art that is just complex is exhausting, any work that is just simple is naive or boring. Together, simplicity and complexity make for BEAUTY. Beauty is always on the side of light and of life.       G. L. 2009