Stan the man

So.... Stan Brakhage is pointing out that almost everything we know is actually an invention. Every perception is a reality, just for existing in our reality (even just as an idea). Language, for example, has come to represent ideas that have been invented before we realized we were inventing them. It is interesting to study the different cultures on the globe, and how they can invented their reality and ascribed meaning to everything. These ideas dictate our life and our psyche, whether or not we are able to acknowledge them. I think that this also can represent the power of art and artist- for it is a blank canvas open to a new language that is being created by the artist. A new way of communicating. Why ascribe language when you can make your own?