The Purpose of Painting by Sphinx
- Siri Norris
- Sep 29, 2025
- 2 min read
I am creating a realm
The realm is a lens into the representation of the existence I experience within the known world
To be of something, from something, within something and having nothing else in every conceivable sense is what existence is
This is absurd when it is only known that existence will inevitably end with death - regardless of what that means in unknown reality
The realm is what colors create in the form of paint because paint is the most manipulable substance in the world as it can be from or of an existence of anything at all; or anything that doesn't exist, until it does
Art is nothing but the single ability humans truly have other than mere existence; the ability to create, in its rawest form
This is why all of existence is essentially as loud and all-encompassing as the world - existing in it as a conscious thing that is trapped in a prison of flesh and blood while dreaming of anything and everything at all it cannot be or do
Everything is only elements and consciousness
This means that to represent the prison that is consciousness within elements is the entirety of human creation - the entire world that isn't natural
Nearly all of existence for the modern human is a creative vision that was created by someone or many
We are all living in the confined creation of human consciousness
That is absurd and making art is therefore the least absurd thing that can be done, as it is the most honest
If the ability to create is the only thing that is and has made all of experienced existence the greatest creation of any kind is one that can grant freedom
All institutions are creations and so are all physical things born from humanity, many more that cannot be perceived with all the senses
If ideas are conscious and hold many creations that make, and keep, the world together, then it follows that any creations defined as Art keep the conscious world together
The World itself is a Painting

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