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What is Aertherialism, an Aertherial,
and the Aertherial Movement?

 
 

  Aertherialism, New Art and New Hope, Neo Mundus

Aertherials never ask "Why Fly?"  They are their flight, albeit imaginary flights of introspective insights and an artistic philosophy of life that lend naturally to their arriving at perceptual heights undreamt.  Most as fledglings have learned the value of an unduantable sense of try and try again, whatever expend in achieving psychic ascent, that sometimes, even by their own demanding standards of success, themselves surprise.  This in a land of Big Sky, Big Pie, Big Size, to which the Aertherials say "Never Die!" a land demanding greater "Can-Do-It-iveness" and a most unusual openness to new ideas and perspectives of the world.  Yes, Aertherials can and do fly, with great scope and precision.

Aertherialism is derived from a barely conscious miasma struggling to voice a new beingness of which any artistic movement may be said to originate.  It is new doctrine if not dogma (new doggerel, perhaps to skeptics?)  of intracranial as much as interstellar flight.  Aertherialism is a new aesthetic, a new-fangled artistic idealism, a tangible promise in its altitudinal attitude and aerial artifacts.  As new as it is, it is just as much evidence of a very ancient urge in the human breast, Aertherialism the latest dream of flight, reborn in each generation in new forms and new expressions.  Aertherists would claim it is an impulse to gravitate towards and join the oft-intuited and as often intimated realm of the spiritual, to which it is the latest heir.  Aertherialism reflects the need to unite with the holy heavenward, the mythical beyond mortality’s keen, the final abode of the vaporous soul, which is nonetheless the essence, the vital force, to which the cessation of breath is the cessation of living, though seemingly inevitable, to the Aertherial is not final.  Rather, it is to be resurrected into a new atmosphere where works of art are air, the artist recognized aeronaut in the issues of his/her artistry as a kind of immortality.

Aertheriality exists despite lack of wings, in the appreciation of what wings can do.  Aertherials create metaphorical wings and become one with the universal ether by which all is ultimately determined and defined.  Paradoxically, Aertherials never leave the ground, but just as well are always in the air.  They accomplish this feat of levitation by sheer will, a capacity to transfer what they believe to what they imagine aerial elevation to be, at least in so far as their minds can graphically illustrate.  Thus, the Aertherial is a balloon in a child’s hand, a bird in a tree, a cloud on a mountain, an aeroplane above a skyscape, a planet in orbital revolution, a spacecraft to the stars, an angel in the everafter, a new thought, idea, suspension of disbelief in a new way, even a new credulous incredulity, all clement speculations on states, variously euphoric, of the Aertherial dimension.

The Aertherial is a species of Dreamer, whose art is "such stuff as dreams are made on" (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, scene I, line 157.)  Aertheriality is a Dream World, where all live happily together in a fairy kingdom, flitting about in the flowers; where knights still joust for the honor of fair ladies, and dragons are still slayable; where heroes and heroines answer the call to aid humanity in its quest for what is right and true, how ever far to go, however high or low.  In the final anaylsis, Art is Hope, Aertherialism, Hope given Wings To Fly, Aertheriality, Hope
Eternal, an Aertherial, an angelic being in whose heart burns Hope’s Eternal Flame.

An Aertherial,
This Day, May 29, 2003,
Of This Anno Prima Aertheria 		 
 
 

 
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