When it comes to what is true — absolutely true — it isn’t much. So it’s best not to take “Truth Has No Meaning” as a nihilistic statement. They key is in the word “meaning.”
Smooth Ray isn’t much on dictionary definitions, but in this case it’s helpful: “Intended to communicate something that is not directly expressed.”
“Meaning” implies division, separateness, not one-ness. More than one. If something “means” something, then it implies or indicates something else. That’s all fine and well for the relative world, but Smooth Ray enjoys pondering the nature of the infinite universe (and tacos).
That which is absolutely true points to no thing. It implies nothing else, because there can’t be anything else. At the most fundamental level, the only truth is the indivisible nature of the universe. There is no meaning because there is no thing to mean.
Title: Truth Has No Meaning
#222-233
Size: 4x4” print on canvas of varying size
Date: 2022
Medium: Relief printing, water-based ink on 140-pound cold pressed paper
SRO #223 & #227 are in the shop, and one is free!
