Art Doubles

There is a doubling down in art. It runs through it. Representation is the act-fact of showing what is not there. The act of showing requires doing something and the fact requires, often, doing something, somewhere, already done by others, with materials already hitched to the thing both not there and somewhere. Art runs afoul … Continue reading →

Art Works As

Art works as sites of engagement; art works as sites that trigger our response biases. The thing there, then, is to make work that activates those responses. Good art makes us all reactionaries. Continue reading →

A View To Beauty and the Sublime

Beauty is your sure bet that desire, unmolested, is going to make you feel around. The Sublime is your failure to feel anything around the beautiful, knowing well it’s there. Desire is the brown box. Continue reading →

Art as Value, Equity

I’d rather that we value art as more a view on life and the world than as a singular object installed lifeless. Because it seems to me that each one view is individual, though inseparable from all other views that we know make up our world. Each work of art comes from each one view … Continue reading →

Art: Sweets and Hang Ups

The thing about representation is that at some point you have to vote. Art that isn’t involved in the world, that has no account of it is empty. Now, suppose I wrote “all art of necessity offers itself up to the world”. Sure, you’d nod, you’d say,”of necessity”.  But I’ll stand you corrected that there’s … Continue reading →