“A lot of people look for meaning, maybe because they don’t understand it and they want to try and answer it in words; but art is like music. If it strikes you, it strikes you. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t have to. You don’t hear a song and say ‘I can’t understand the beat, I must just not get it.’ You just know that you either feel it or you don’t.
Visuals don’t always grip us the way music does, and I think that’s to do with how photoreceptors were quite late in the evolutionary development of life forms. Before we could really sense light, we had to depend on vibrations to understand our environment. So that’s how you know what you’re feeling can be felt by another without the need for words.”
– at Wei-Ling Contemporary with Humans of Kuala Lumpur
Photostory by Mushamir Mustafa
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(This post was first published on June 14th 2016)
