Parallax of another sort

[RICHARD ROMEO]

J-

I brought your thoughtful post home last night to think about how I would 
reply.  I'm with you in distancing myself from the art criticism--there 
are far too many other folks who can do better than this poor offspring 
of peasants.  

Can science and logic gives us a feel for the tug of gravity as 
experienced from the sun?  Reminds me of the title of that book:  _God in 
search of Man_.  Surely, we cannot measure mystery and wonder, only 
firmly intuit that if, in our "hunt for Christ", we can speculate on that 
ob from the sun, ultimately we will see such beauty retreating from the 
jackboot, culture, man, etc..  Mystics of all stripe claim this vision 
within the sun.  After the 20th C, what will be the next portrait of The 
Last Supper--some meager buffet, a mingling Christ, unseen and wanting it 
that way, trying to regain some of the mystery we all shamelessly deny, 
either by corruptive power and/or culture, or by simple "cheap nihilism". 
 
Maybe art is all we have left, blabbering thru e-space, crying onto a 
canvas, whispering into Jenkins ear.  The Other we're after, not mere 
reversal, not clever juxtaposition, today in these cynical times, not 
even suspecting an answer.
To appraise our changing image from G-d's perspective and I would add act 
accordingly, that's all we can do, realizing we are only embracing one 
fragment of that perspective.  to embrace the whole is bliss and 
terror--we weren't built for such extremes and must weaken gradually to 
them.  

I asked "why were you not like the fallen one?"
to that man on the cross.

He said:  "perhaps you forgot this, dear son"
and pulled me up to his loss.

Man, the eternal bride, has divorced Christ.  He is purely mathematical 
and sadly desperate... 

Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org