'Artistic minds primal and direct commumnication with the nature of things is still seen as an alternative and more genuine path of human creativity, opposing the analytical cold and cynical scientific approach. Frequently we find that artists believe, at least in private, that they are fundamentally opposed to this science, to mimical science which is designed to endanger thier minds, thier aims and way of life'
Miroslav Holub
Holub was a scientist, a distinguished imunologist as well as a poet, he felt no conflict between his two areas of endeavour. Further, he believed that a scientific idea , reduced to its components, verified and sieved, critisized and revised by observation was very much the same as what the creative fraternity engaged in
'Both the scientific and poetic communications are a function of condensation of meanings, of the net weight of meaning per word, of inner and immanent intensity. Opposed to other written communications they are, at thier best, concentrates, time saving devices'
Holub spent his life trying to breach this 'romantic disjunction'
I see his point and in the pieces where chunks of real life are gilded or offered up for examination I hope to ascend to that purity. The symbol of the first third of my previous years work used the cooling towers as icons of an attitude to our understanding of our relative morality regarding the environment as well as referencing a man made environment disappearing before our eyes
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