As a person who had studied painting and art history, and who was also an actress and singer, I had seen these arts, these aspects of my life, as very separate. I felt I had to put aside my care for painting in order to concentrate on my career in theatre. Then I began to study the philosophy Aesthetic Realism, and this statement  by its founder, poet and critic Eli Siegel: "All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves."  In a class, he asked me, "Do you think the arts are more different or more the same?"  I answered, "I think I see them as more different." And he said, "The more you look, the more you will find they are the same."  I have come to see that this is true, and it unified my life. I want other people to benefit as I have from this great, new knowledge, and I'll be writing much more about this in future entires.

For instance, there is an issue of the international periodical The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known titled "All the Arts," and in it, Eli Siegel writes about the opposites of passion and control as they are in music, poetry, and acting. I'll be quoting posting passages from this very soon.  So I hope you'll come again soon!

Meanwhile you can visit the links I have included, which I'll also be adding to, and find out more.