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Notes on Abstraction
In advance of a meeting next week with friends to talk about Abstraction, I created a note file* and dumped thoughts as they occurred to me during my day to day. Then, I arranged them thematically. A rough classification. Here...
Modernity and After Modernity
Below, the contents of my Notes file about Modernity. One of many sacs to be bled into this blog from time to time. Thoughts sometime beg to be recorded on the fly. A Couple of Definitions: Modernity: the world that...
Modernity
Modernity yields both progress and regress without necessary favor to either one. Modernity is construction and destruction, sometimes alternately, sometimes simultaneously, sometimes... Modernity doesn't necessarily mean better days ahead. * * * Libido dominandi Hypertrophic Modernity Implied appeal to a...
Bedtime Story Hour
I thought I'd ask ChatGPT to tell us a bedtime story... Once upon a time, in a small house nestled deep in the woods, there lived a young artist named Dennis. Dennis was passionate about his art and spent countless...
Monadology
I've called these spiny hemispheres Monads since the beginning (1995). My knowledge of Leibniz was rudimentary, and still is in many ways to this day. The more I learn, the more I am satisfied with the nomination. The West...
mirror of technology
mirror of technology 2021 #607 Oil on Canvas over Wood Panel 60" x 48"...
The Underground Spirit
The Martyrmade Podcast: The Underground Spirit I Wish I could time travel to my high school self and drop the pro-tip of researching biography and fine grained historical context while reading the big thinkers in history. This was my...
Modernity: Acceleration, Velocity and Control
Like a little butterfly, a thought fluttered to me this morning. On my ride to the studio as I was listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, "Supernova in the East" podcast #62 (Carlin's description: "The Asia-Pacific War of 1937-1945...
Please Stand By
Mea Maxi Culpa! We've had an interregnum! Time to stop the stoppage. 15 years of blogging is a long haul. Around a year or so ago, I finally got involved in Instagram. A late adopter, I was critical of...
Instagram Reviews
I've been posting capsule reviews on Instagram as I tour NYC and see the shows. You can find me there via the handle "pacificohollingsworth" (Pacifico is my grandfather's name). It started with a sentence or two, then I followed...
Considering Accelerationism
A friend sent me a couple of articles about chatter concerning a revival of a movement called Accelerationism. Accelerationist Art by Rob Meyers The Dark Enlightenment by Nick Land My friend's over-riding concern is about the changing nature of...
Jonathan Meese on Zardoz
In my opinion, the opening decades of the 21st century are gradually revealing the prescience of John Boorman's movie Zardoz. Terrorism, globalism, the haves vs the have-nots, the adored and deplored, the rip tide of science, the prospects of machine...
Armory Live Talks: Collecting Digital Art
This year, the symposiums at the Armory Fair seem to be improving slightly, giving me a single ray of hope that people will realize that the fairs should amplify the symposium component of art fairs in general. (start rant) The...
"Unique and Singular" at Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
I'm proud to announce that my monoprints are included in a group show with a great group of artists opening this weekend at Jean Milant's Cirrus Gallery in Los Angeles, California. Unique and Singular January 31st - March 11th...
Striving, Yearning, Struggling
The audio is taken from NASA's Huygen probe landing on Titan in January 14th, 2005. (NASA has recently opened their audio library up to the public domain. The archive is a hoot.) I like the descent scenario. The compulsion...
OuPeinPo
(Image Source.) Flipping the pages of Anthony Julius' Transgressions, the Offences of Art, 2002, I became arrested by these paragraphs on page106: Supposing these two, the innovative and the interrogative, to be ideal types, one could say that while...
Museums of Art
There has been some debate about museum design recently. The discussion ranges from MOMA's impending sacrifice of the lamb, to the anticipation of the New Whitney Museum and if they might have learned something about the needs of exhibition...
Modernity and Churchill, part I
I'm fortunate to be able to listen to audiobooks and podcasts as I work. In The Last Lion by William Manchester, volume I, we follow the early life of Winston Churchill through Cuba, India, the Sudan, South Africa and...
Without Truth, There is Only Power
I am an artist. I am also an architect. I designed my education by substituting an an undergraduate degree in architecture for an undergraduate degree in art. I pursued this course to a hard won architectural license in order...
C.I.C. to Yam Span
Apropos of periodic references to my early years as a sailor (7th Fleet, USS Truxtun CGN-35) working in the Combat Information Center, we have some news about the evolution of the kind of work environment that has to gather...
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