I have become quite fed up with painting. The more paintings I see, sold like the thoughtless dribble of a washed up hobbyist, the more I am inclined to agree that it is a deceased medium. Painters are standing by the medium's side with a sparking defibrillator...... The defibrillator makes a good brush though.... Maybe it's not an entirely dead medium. I have been painting with used barbie-doll hair making abstracts with sinister undertones to them.
Ideas and nonsense form some kind of equation that I just don't seem to get.... or maybe I do but concepts only twirl around like a classical ballet. A ballet of mould choreographed inside my tinned peach of a brain.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
The Barbie Defibrillation
I have become quite fed up with painting. The more paintings I see, sold like the thoughtless dribble of a washed up hobbyist, the more I am inclined to agree that it is a deceased medium. Painters are standing by the medium's side with a sparking defibrillator...... The defibrillator makes a good brush though.... Maybe it's not an entirely dead medium. I have been painting with used barbie-doll hair making abstracts with sinister undertones to them. Friday, December 10, 2010
Fleeting Creativity
People seldom realise that without an audience there is no “art”. The artist is inseparable from the person viewing their work. Creativity is just as prevalent in the minds of the viewer, as it was in the mind of creator. Gather the people who normally only witness art and make them become a piece in an artwork…
All you give them is a fleeting moment of creative nirvana. All that is left now is a series of action photos. Even though these are also beautiful, they are not the same artwork anymore. Anyone who sees a musical performance and later watches a video taken from it can tell that it has become something completely different to what they saw earlier.
When a book of art history refers to its own photo of a classic masterpiece, is it now talking about something completely different? The illusion of another illusion…..?
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Tinned Peaches, Computers or Self-Portraits?
I would like this blog to be an unedited continuum of my own consciousness. The common human mind, is like a crudely made biological computer. Something crafted by a mad scientist in the future. Something that teeters on the edge of genius and disease. Your brain is a tiny operating cortex suspended in goey head-plasma. Just a veiny peach in a tin of syrup. A peach that might ferment and become alcoholic with age.
I suspect that computers are enveloping our reality. It's like we're falling further into Plato's cave. They're our own little robots that can be nothing but a raw, self-portrait of the sleep deprived person who made them. This computer doesn't know who controls it. Though neither does my own biological computer.
My art makes itself come alive like an autonomous robot in itself......but it does still end up a raw self portrait. I would like to post not only the processes in my artworks, I would like to add a weekly contribution of the mindful nonsense from the world around me. I see the world only in it's absurdity and I write the random collage of nonsense into automatic poetry.
Ideas and nonsense form some kind of equation that I just don't seem to get.... or maybe I do but concepts only twirl around like a classical ballet. A ballet of mould choreographed inside my tinned peach of a brain.
I suspect that computers are enveloping our reality. It's like we're falling further into Plato's cave. They're our own little robots that can be nothing but a raw, self-portrait of the sleep deprived person who made them. This computer doesn't know who controls it. Though neither does my own biological computer.
My art makes itself come alive like an autonomous robot in itself......but it does still end up a raw self portrait. I would like to post not only the processes in my artworks, I would like to add a weekly contribution of the mindful nonsense from the world around me. I see the world only in it's absurdity and I write the random collage of nonsense into automatic poetry.
Ideas and nonsense form some kind of equation that I just don't seem to get.... or maybe I do but concepts only twirl around like a classical ballet. A ballet of mould choreographed inside my tinned peach of a brain.
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