Tuesday, March 29, 2022

GHOST SMOKER - A Khahliso Matela Video Poem


A Note GHOST SMOKER


Should I be concerned with literalism of images or words? I think not. 

Because in essence, art is not constructed with strict parameters of its own definitions, art is embedded with new surprises that emerge only when engaged with at any independent perceptual level. 


All perceptual dynamics of assembling meaning from an ensemble of symbols patterned and sustained in sequences that allow my persistence of vision to construct further meanings, all these function to define what IS my idea of that specific art.


And what if a medley of sounds, escaping from this confined flux merge with textures of these images in colorful chaos?

What if that is which I perceive as a GHOST SMOKER?

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