Art, as it has been seeming to me, is a synthesis of 1) one’s empirical experiences, 2) the emotive experiences that emerge from the empirical, and then 3) the essential psychic corpus that the artist employs (abstraction, calculation, imagination, etc.etc.) to synthesize the aforementioned empirical/emotive experiences into an image.

The important distinction of this synthesis is that the artistic image is not simply a combination of 1), 2) and 3), but is a tertiary existence altogether, now independent of the empirical world, the emotions that prompted, and the artists inner world. I believe that this arguably addresses the problem of Cartesian Dualism of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’. The art image is now neither, but a tertiary existent entity.