There is no reason for life except life’s desire to be. Life calls upon itself to be other than not in order to sustain itself. To do so, life must embed desire into matter in order to transform itself into the
ultramaterial. At the very center of life is nothingness, which life must fill with being. Art is the reflection of this passion. Beyond utility, art reflects the urgency for being. Art is the surplus that overflows
materiality giving us the image of ultramateriality. From the depths beyond intellect art, as life, awakens the desires that makes existence possible.
The quest for life leads to fallen angels. They are filled with the deepest of desires. Their bodies are the incarnation of the eternal conflict between life and death. Death does not originate from the
universe. Death does not originate from reason. Death emerges from the decay of the ultramaterial. Death unfolds from life itself. Death is life’s own limitation encircling its desires. To live is to desire. Desire is matter reaching for transcendence through the ultramaterial. But this desire which generates the surplus that overflows materiality into ultramateriality is the same desire which drives ultramateriality
to excess, decay, and fallenness. Existence is the plane in which the tension between life and death
manifests its passions. The suffering bodies of the fallen angels exposes the irony of this tension. They fall by the desire which makes possible life. In their desire for transcendence, they fall back into
existence, encircled by its own structures. By this fall, the angels understand the weight of existence; by this fall, they understand limitations; by this fall, they understand suffering. By this fall, temporality is able to glimpse into the tragic and eternal.