"Letter to a Reader" by Don Gerz
November 18, 2020
Dear Reader,
"Sending Simplicity, Receiving Complexity" is a work of art that is not directed at you personally!!! Rather, it is directed at EVERYBODY dead, living, and who will live. It's directed at HUMANITY.
If you had never been born, "Sending Simplicity, Receiving Complexity" (or something analogous to it) would have been written.
It has a theme that constantly surfaces in my work: All things (concrete AND abstract), regardless of seeming complexity, are simple and unified into a monolithic whole that we call God.
It and all I write as art and philosophy is not about you, me, him, her, us, or them PERSONALLY.
My work...the work of any creator, any writer, any artist is directed at HUMANITY as a whole. All art is universal as opposed to being singular, individual, and particular.
I cannot emphasize this fact enough...apparently!
Yours,
Don Gerz