The Top Hat

Symbolically, the Top Hat illuminates the logical/moral/emotional conflict of the mind, and with the illumination, speaks about the very genesis of art. On one hand, it speaks of a world of hegemony; an organisation of intelligence, of clarity and structure. It speaks of an organisation of the cerebral order; the triumph of pragmatic and the educated. On the other hand, it is speaks of the world of dadadism that sought to destroy cerebral hegemony and replace it with the chaotic emotions of life. Symbolically, it is an entry ticket into the realms of the vain, the carnal desire, the irrational, and the night. Within that paradox, between the cerebral order and the irrational chaos, we discover the transformation that we know as art.