Reality & Ballast

There is no need of determining whether art must flee reality or defer to it, but rather what precise dose of reality the work must take on as ballast to keep from floating up among the clouds or from dragging along the ground with weighted boots.

Each artist solves this problem according to his lights and abilities.  The greater an artist’s revolt against the worlds reality, the greater can be the weight of reality to balance that revolt. But the weight can never stifle the artists solitary exigency. – Camus

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.  - Chris Marker