Exna Helos

Art is any intentional product of human action. It exists as one of
three types: text, performance, and sculpture.

Text art consists of anything with the property that it can be described by a subset of pre-defined semantic symbols. Prose, poetry, graphic design. They are inspecific with regard to time and space, and are, in principle, infinitely repeatable. They are born of context and exist only in relation to one another.

Performances consist of behaviors that are born of and fade within the moment. They are time-localized and time-specific. Examples may include dance, acting, reading, and music. They are also born of context and exist as tensions, but in addition carry their own self-weighted value as actions in and of themselves, for themselves, intrinsic.

Sculptures are place localized and place specific, or at the least object-localied and object-specific. The existence of scultpure is predicated on the existence of objects, as unique from one another.

Our society has placed increasing emphasis on the text arts, and it may be that one of the results is the decreased importance attached to place and to the existence of art objects.

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"You're right to fear Sunday evenings. You're experiencing something real, and the fact that you know what you're feeling, or realize it as something particular, a pain distinct from others, is a credit to your prescience. But you'll learn, as you age, that what you're feeling isn't to be feared, exactly. One can glory in it, much as one marvels at the elegance of a predator consuming its catch, or the majesty of an exploding star as it extinguishes life in its sphere. These are terrors, but in them there is also beauty, and even from them - perhaps only from them - life grows."

(Millburn, NJ --> New York Penn)