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Because its deputizes us detectives, which gives hope.
"A mystery! A mystery! Where can I lay meaning?"
Art's interpretability as its highest duty. The crime scene and art are both given this role. The movie detective, the painting, both allow mystery's possibility of answers, thus light the candle that there is an answer. Provide the possibility to believe in interpretation, giving a truth-potential without having to actualize answers. Interpretation, made as interminable as possible, already provides the same comfort as answers because it enacts the genre, creates art, which assumes meaning. So you must create the fissure, enable the mystery. You enact the murder, censor a part of the sign. Snip the semantic loop. This fissure is the poetic, is its interpretability. It deputizes us detectives, which gives hope, "lights the candle that there is an answer." Leaves the TV on at dusk, a nightlight in darkness. The real mystery is who made it dark.
"[Art] is a cultural structure such that its prize is "what it is about." ... there is something to be unlocked, understood. There is something to be won. This is the belief. ... Painting begins to be prized not for painting but for this mystery. And a mystery, should it not spoil itself, cannot tell you its answer. A mystery instead must load its objects with intent, clues, an ambrosia of noir, an affect of meaning."
Art's interpretability as its highest duty. The crime scene and art are both given this role. The movie detective, the painting, both allow mystery's possibility of answers, thus light the candle that there is an answer. Provide the possibility to believe in interpretation, giving a truth-potential without having to actualize answers. Interpretation, made as interminable as possible, already provides the same comfort as answers because it enacts the genre, creates art, which assumes meaning. So you must create the fissure, enable the mystery. You enact the murder, censor a part of the sign. Snip the semantic loop. This fissure is the poetic, is its interpretability. It deputizes us detectives, which gives hope, "lights the candle that there is an answer." Leaves the TV on at dusk, a nightlight in darkness. The real mystery is who made it dark.
