Autogenesis 15

SCIENCE AND THE ARTISTIC CREATOR “Every truth needs a form in order to be bearable.”

Science breaks reality down in order to understand it; the artistic creator recomposes it in order to make it perceptible and acceptable. Neither can fully do without the other.

They are twins, like the two faces of Janus, cosmic black holes looking at the same reality from two opposite directions.

To human mediocrity, they are useless. To the greedy, they become a source of income.

The ancient Tahitians may already have sensed this. At death, the soul left Te Ao, the visible world of the living, to enter Te Pō, the dark and invisible world of the ancestors, before continuing its journey elsewhere.

Thus, what we now call the invisible, the dark or the immeasurable may have been, for them, neither emptiness nor nothingness, but another state of reality.

Every truth needs a form in order to be bearable.

Mathius TO’ERAU, the Suréviste