A lot of artists –
filmmakers, writers, painters – specialize in showing how people land in
hell. Their work plumbs the recesses of
human depravity and despair, shows lives disintegrating into chaos, unsparingly
depicts the madness of relationships and societies gone awry.
Big, fat, hairy deal.
I’ll tell you this for
free: anyone can go to hell. Most of us do so regularly; it’s a very short
commute from ordinary life. No one has to
tell me that pain is ubiquitous and we’re all going to die. I respect the talent of artists who dwell on
this message, but they are worlds away from wayfinders, artists who Form
creations that take their audience to hell and
back. Bad artists ignore the
darkness of human existence. Good
artists often get stuck there. Great
artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an
even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.
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