Slouka: Listening for Silence

...silence, like light or love, requires a medium to give it meaning, takes on the color of its host, adapts easily to our fears and needs. (40)

As silence disappears, the world draws tighter, borders collapse, the public and private bleed and intermix. (41)

The harvest of dictatorship, properly understood, is not death, but silence. (43)

Art, whatever its medium, attempts to force a wedge beneath the closed lid of the world, and fails; the artist, in his or her minutes and seconds, attempts to say--to paint, to carve; in sum, to communicate--what ultimately cannot be communicated. (44)