September 17, 2021,
A friend posted this on Facebook this morning and it spoke to me. Jean Arp was on to something and we don't even know when He wrote this. (I googled Arp and he died in 1966. He was a German and French sculptor, artist and poet)
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. -Jean Arp, artist and poet ( Sep 1887-1948)
I wonder what Jean Arp would think about the noise in today's world. People didn't watch TV back then with the screaming commercials. Computers and Social Media was unheard of. You Tube and streaming videos were in the future.
Have you noticed that almost every documentary has to have some kind of background sound running? Sometimes the background noise covers up what the message is about or what they are trying to teach us. Why? It's one of my hubby and my pet peeves and when we can't hear the dialogue we'll leave the channel.
We need silence in our life.
Here is an article on the 7 benefits of silence with a Ted talk included.
Jean Arp's paintings (Sorry for the ad noise in the beginning)
Thank you for reading.
