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Art and its Trinity
David Escalona Carrillo (David D’Omni)
Plastic and music artist (Rap/Hip hop)
Havana, Cuba
Beautifying and creating are related qualities of an outer shell and its core.
There is a trinity in art: beauty, creation, a union between beauty and creation.

T

o create beauty requires talent: to
create, inspiration: to unite
beauty and creation, genius. All
artists move within this trinity. Some
beautify, others create, but rarely does
one find a genius that borders on
insanity or risks the pyre. Beautifying
does not always guarantee creating, and
beauty makes it possible to stereotype it.
Creating does not always guarantee
beautification; it is possible to see that
many of those who create, do so while
floating among concepts and lacking in
beauty. Both are valid and necessary
experiences, both can tug at a
heartstring, but without a lack of that
trinity, we could say they were artisanal,
science, civility, politics or sports. Art is
grandiose, total, and powerful, when it is
born as a sincere scream from the soul,
and does not pretend, fear, or overwhelm
with majestic strangeness: it is banal,
hollow, and sterile when it pretends,
fears, and does not overwhelm. This is
why it is hard to find art in places with
homogenizing tendencies and excess
controls, where populism trumps while
disguised as contemporary fashion, party

or religion. I can’t shake a certain
sadness I feel when I view the work of
artists who besides talent have genius
too, but hide it for fear or convenience,
and attack anything called Art. I feel a
wound-like pain when real artists fall
into the clutches of censorship for
having shown signs of real courage and
raise the name of art on high. I feel
involuntary apathy and deafness when I
am surrounded by something incorrectly
called art praises governments, selfcensors, incites unmeasured patriotism,
and separation: it clones itself over and
over to exalt insatiable appetites, is
homogenous and, of course, is not born,
but rather produced through imitation or
obeys orders. I feel great pleasure and
deep gratitude to the essence of life
when I can enjoy true, sincere and
valiant art, art that is irreverent, critical,
strange, wild, transcendent, ascendant,
free and freeing. We are linguistic
beings and need to name things despite
relativity. I say this so as not to establish
limits on what beauty, creation, or the
union of both is. But I thought it just to
expose
this
trinity
because

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