Art Making through Thinking Feeling Sensing and Intuition

I am exploring thinking, feeling, sensing and intuition as a visual artist, engaged with the concepts of diffraction, becoming abstract, assemblage as per Delueze, Barad, Grosz. Do these ideas and authors discuss “feeling, sensing and intuition” through those concepts? Yes, the concepts of diffraction, becoming abstract, assemblage, and the authors you mentioned all touch upon […]

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Figments, Fragments, and Fractures in the Matrix

  Canto 1 There are dimples in your perception, Doubts and ditties too profound to mess with. Take cover in the undertow! Gnostic fabulation goes a long way these days, Takes the edge off indirection and misdeeds. It’s not time yet to proceed, so Take the temporary route, Be radically temporalizing in your deliberations, Seek

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Prolegomina to a new blog series

I promised myself a new blog posting, a series actually, tied together (however loosely) by some kind of thematic frame. Given my semi-disciplined mind, this endeavour does require a structure, a frame to contain the chaos, focus the irrruptions, gather the threads into some manner of a weave. However, not a frame story, not a

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Hegel Today

Hegel today, Dogon tomorrow.  Through the logos of ontic revelations there are moments of luminous grace. Eros and Agape come together presenting impertinent importunities, which add up to fragile occasions, unable to be monetized or memorialized. Bergson in the morning, Deleuze in the twilight evermore. Whitman’s song rings on, but Nietzsche takes the day turns

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New Poem: Rosemary Leaving

Rosemary Leaving Time to go? So soon it seems. Despite the decades of (un)necessary decorum and disguise,no place to hide. But there’s unfinished business!Well, there’s always businessIncomplete, undone. Those canvasesleaning against the wall,For one. And sketches in a thousand (so it seems)Notebooks, journals, scraps of paperBetween the pages.Notes to Self, undone. What you (were) meant to

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Untitled, but does it really matter?

Untitled New ArtWork Does a title really matter? I use this experimental piece and the accompanying narrative to bring more explicitly art references and other influences into the story/composition.  This multilayered, multimedia work brings a Mondrian-like scaffolding to a textured ground that is part earth-scape, part colour fields, part wall & paper debris, a conflation

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