PAINTING AS METAPHOR

in structure, aesthetic form, and temporal space-now unable to speak to the past or to the future. Could it be that contemporary debates about the demise of the visual arts are in fact lamentations that highlight the anxiety of a society that has been separated from traditional structures of cultural identity into a flux of creative reorganization? And is this creative shift, while instigator of cultural angst and unease, also an opening to new formats and potentialities, offering new possibilities of what might constitute structure and materiality of the pictorial image? Painting as Metaphor