Explanations turn an artist into a performer. He justifies the creation and makes it easily edible for the admirer or the critic or the passer-by. He need not do it.
Absurdity is frankness. It sees no purpose in explanations and definitions. It is to present the unknown patterns of life as it is. A slice of life with no explanations. It is standing behind the scenes and observing without a clinical mind. It is art created with abandon.
That reminds me about life which is quite absurd if not for the learnt and the taught and the built answers strengthening the human animal’s non-existent purpose. Or else he wouldn’t want to be a part of the next moment or the next day and so on. Absurdity while shattering these conditioned meanings and so called realities force us to delve deeper. And cautions us to observe like an observer so that we don’t create yet another veil which might be easily mistaken for the reality or truth by the inferior lot.
Its very purpose is to create an urge within the human animal to take the journey further. To leave the comforts of his fake paradise built with ignorance and borrowed teachings and seek the ultimate unknown. That’s what absurdity does. It’s a tool to tear away the veil, the divine fire that shall set ablaze his fancy comfort castles and turn his heaven into a burning hell. Only then can he take the journey further. Only then can he become an eternal traveler for he has no home to go back to.
But knowing the nature of man we are quite sure that he shall build myriad paradises on the way. That’s when a tool like absurdity or something equally genuine born out from the need of the hour will wake him up and bestow upon him the strength and courage to stare into the dark abyss instead of falling asleep with his substandard dreams. It’s quite a brutal tool as we all know how it feels to wake up a sleeping child.
