Between Moments - The beautiful truth in absurdity.

You know those moments, where everything is too real. The weight of it all, the compounding demands, a massive disruption or one minor incident too many on the wrong day pushes you to the brink and then… you see a pigeon with a thong in its beak… and all of it just crumbles away before a tide of laughter.

The absurdity of it, a reminder of the sheer unending potential for this world to Rube-Goldberg almost any result, it smashes apart all those rigorously constructed walls of your melancholy maze by simply defying “the rules” you’ve put in place. You’re sad, the world is ending, everything’s awful, nothing can be beautiful again… until you see a funeral shrine someone has spontaneously built around a mouse dead on the sidewalk. New little blooms of flowers added to it throughout the day. What absurdity. What beauty.

I think of this sentiment most often when I look at the work of Rupture (@ruptureNFT) and others like them . Ruptures comic “Vortex” in particular sits on my coffee table, if the world feels like too much, if my own feelings overwhelm, I often reach for it alongside a coffee and a 🌿. Something in the strange and horrific journey the characters undergo, the room within it for a different perspective on each read through, the overwhelming nature of the visuals. Its absurdity overwrites all else in my mind, I’m tasked to figure out the impossible sequence of events playing out in the page.

It is in truth a better reflection on our world than terabytes of landscape photography. In absurdity, there is our beautiful truth. There is the shocking reminder of our infinitesimal self. Absurdity is our brain writing about itself, it is a rock hurtling through space full of apes convinced they’ve got it all figured out because they have numbers on a screen that represent paper in a building that represents number screen and possibly some minerals.

Absurdity is truth, it is beauty, it is us. We should do more to champion that truth in art.

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You can find out more about Rupture's work on their website and view their available work on their Exchange Art profile