Aesthetics of sting, anger, grievance and altercation in creative practice of traditional cultures of Brazil and Melanesia

Anger and creativity have been commonly linked. How would we have a Ganesha if Shiva had not angrily severed his son’s head, wondrously replacing it with an elephantine one? Was it not a potent mystico-esoteric insight of Jacob Boehme, whose influence extended to Hegel and Hesse, that the whole cosmos issued from an unfathomable divine Anger? - an eruption of pure action, of overly-diffuse possibilities that had to be dissipated and of wildness tamed by holy Love. Commonsensically, human anger-outwardly expressed or repressed within-is the signal of relational altercation, the reactivity of a stress present(ed) between human and human, human and animal (if it is permissible to differentiate between the two in a late modern, would-be post-modern context), and between humans and the environment. Anger is the sunrise of an ‘abnormal’ act, some strong deed that is patently distinguishable, that indelibly overrides life’s humdrum, and with such singularity of form that it beckons the iconic - the representation of conflict.