[MD] code of art

[Woods Woods]

Marsha:
Is it like being deeply in love?  Painting for me is being deeply in 
love.  Does metaphysics exclude love?   Does the MOQ exclude 
love?  Love of sky and earth?   What do you think?  Is there love 
within a Code of Art?

woods:
    Art is love.  Without love no nourishment.  Nothing would generate.  Hate 
suffocates and is such a downer.
    The moq is all about love.  Rocks love.  Love being such a creative force 
mellowing a mind gone astray I'd say.  Love is grounding.  Decadence has opened 
my eyes to seeing how rocks are moral.  I've always had difficulty with understanding 
this, but decadence is such a lovely explanatory concept for me.  Decadence 
clearly combines morality with art, at least how I see this.  A decay in morals 
is a decay in art.  A decay in art is a decay in morals.  Rocks are a creation and thus 
an artwork.  Rocks are totality moral.

Marsha:
     You seem so brave.  Why are men, in general, afraid to talk about love?

woods:
    That's always been hard for me to figure out.  My father was emotional and cared 
about people.  He showed love.  The only thing I can think at the moment is that 
some men don't like to discuss love is love is weak to them.  To show any love is 
a weakness and something that can't understand.  Some men find thought to be 
something to glorify and therefore love being something thoughtful and calculating, 
yet let's call this heart-thinking, some men get disturbed by this kind of heart-thinking 
that goes on in everybody.  It's too wild for them and some men feel that should be 
able to control what they think.  Heart-thought is already here.  It's already conceptualized.  
Some men think they have to come up with what reality is about and since heart-thought 
already induces a certain calculating contribution to what reality is, then it's difficult for 
these kinds of men.  Mind-thought can be manipulated more easily and men like to control 
life and make it their own.  I find this could be found in women too, don't you think.  Yet, 
men have been able to exploit this mind-thought for a long time and have turned it into 
something of their own and the air-waves of communication (books, media, teachers, etc...) have 
been mostly men for some time so this control and authority has something connective to 
do with this.  For men to have been able to manipulate mind-thought they've become 
to think it is a more natural right of theirs to be able to continue use this easily 
manipulated tool call mind-thought.  When heart-thought comes along it can scare some 
men because it's already preconditioned.  You can't mind-think love.  Love is something 
we do.  Those that don't like to expose a peaceful sharing called love is something we do 
and can't control so we'll love no matter what we think, this disturbs some people or men in 
general due to power positions that I've mentioned they've controlled for some times.  So 
this is why men in their effort to control something they can't control called love, then this 
can warp their emotions into an emotion called disturbed anger.  I delineate anger into a disturbed 
anger and a more peace induced anger due to some anger is good and helpful.  For example, 
if I saw my wife getting physically hurt by somebody else, then I would most definitely rise to anger and 
in the name of peace go after that person, get them away, and hopefully they will quit fighting.  I wouldn't 
out of revenge or if the threat is definitely over, keep attacking the person.  That wouldn't help anything.

Marsha:  
Doesn't it hurt to keep it locked up?

woods:
Yes.


Marsha:
Maybe it's only Western men.  Do you know?

woods:
I don't know.  My inclination is this is a human problem and can be found anywhere in any gender, but 
I definitely have noticed that men don't find interest in love being something significant in 
solving and generating any philosophical issues, yet, love is a core moral, thus, philosophical issue.  
Philosophies that don't recognize love and thus can't fathom a constant force in our lives is blind.


    There may be more to this whole discussion of love, but this is what's comin' out of me head and 
heart fur now...  I say heart for, and I've realized this for a long time, that if I'm not feeling and losing 
energy in what I'm writing or discussing, then I'm starting to trap myself into a tiny skull and 
shutting the much larger world out of my thinking and that would make for some poor art indeed.  Art 
that would matter only to wittle ol'e me.  So before I can't feel and I lose the energy, that's when I 
decide to stop to gather and stay open.  Ya ever feel this way when you do art?

woods