Now: Here: This November 18, 2005
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PP
New York City
What Is, Evokes What Was
photography and drawing
I've been studying the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. This caught my eye after I created the images ... "Jung saw Introverted Sensing as something of an oxymoron: sensing, which is a perceiving function, focused inward and thus away from that which is perceived (the "object"). In this light, he described this sensing as something removed from reality, full of archetypes/mythical figures/goblins; sensing of one's own set of forms."
The further I go
The stronger the memory
Leading back to you
- Haiku by Sulimonus
anaximander
Berlin, Germany
NUDEs - in cold print
digital prints
i am living in the “sitte&sexus” theme, since a while, forever, right now. my partner and i, we`re not only painting and writing this theme, we`re living it. am “thinking” in “sitte&sexus”, these two archetypes, and every work i start, however far away i meant its to be from this theme, in the end its closer than the one before.
[curator note, see "About the Artists" section for more on "sitte& sexus."]
Joel Adas
Brooklyn, New York
Two Rooms
pencil on paper
I've been thinking about the everyday sights and scenes we look at mostly with glazed over, tired eyes. How if we look more closely, there is beauty all around us.
Anthony Gonzalez
Washington Heights, New York City
What's Wrong with Kansas
Photoshop collage
An image riddle:
Brothers and sisters have I none
But that man's father is my father's son
“Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent
Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that
the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who
created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the
overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes
is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him. …I’m writing
you today, to formally request that this alternative theory be taught
in your schools, along with the other two theories.”
From an open letter to the Kansas School Board by the members of the Church
of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Go to www.venganza.org
Renee Watabe
Verona, New Jersey
My Protective Corset
Oil Pastel on Paper
On my mind are these passages from "The Undefended Self" by
Susan Thesenga.
"The state of relaxed openness to the cosmic flow of life is rare,
as our usual condition is a contracted state of fear and refusal
to surrender our pride and self will. So we all live in various stages
of numbness, unavailable to the full pulsation of our life force. ...
And yet since human beings cannot live without pleasure we find our pleasure
in what is familiar, in states of agitated overactivity or will-less passivity.
And because we are defended against the tender and vulnerable flow of
our inner sensations and feelings, we become addicted to an intense level
of external sensory stimulation. The more numb we are to the vulnerable
flow of inner experience , the more we will intensify the external assault
on our senses in order to feel something. Or we find pleasure in being
completely passive and taken care of by others. These false or partial
pleasures are never deeply satisfying, but until we learn how to relax
into our deeper selves, we stay hooked on the pattern of alternating high
intensity with passive collapse."
Nick Holliday
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Eureka!
collage
My mind is generally empty when I make art, but I've been thinking mostly about the march of time. As always. [...as well as wretched home-wreckers with names like Brandi.]
Pamela Flynn
Freehold, New Jersey
around and around #1
Mixed media with digital image
Around and around we go and where we will stop no one knows.
Peter Ferko
Washington Heights, New York City
for Nick, Where Indeed...
photocollage
Necessity is the mother of invention. Where does it all come from? I once answered an interview question, that yoga helps me keep my connection with creativity. Who knows? But the ideas come when you ask and you hope some of them are decent.
Why is this entry coming to me with an Irish accent in my head?!
Tim Folzenlogen
Washington Heights, New York City
untitled comic strip
pencil drawings
click here to read the strip
(This is a serial strip that continues from previous weeks)
And a comment on last week:
I really liked your (Peter Ferko) piece last show about the Polish
artist.
I think that this - his attitude - is the future of art.
Art for family, or friends, or community, or city, or world (people have
different levels of callings) - stuff that will be solution oriented. Art
will find its value in terms of how deeply it touches the intended
audience - and the depth of change toward a better tomorrow that occurs.
People will support it, because they will really want to, because it made
their lives better, and they want to experience this more often. It will
be more like buying gas for the car (for their community) than it
will acquiring possessions. Being an artist will become more of a blue
collar kind of a job - with every community supporting many - all of whom
are inspiring future generations, to think along visionary lines.
Society will get really cool. Much more personal and sexy.
Communities will become breeding grounds for genius. I think that we are
literally swimming in potential genius and solutions, just no one inspires
people to think, take responsibility, and express. Everyone holds everyone
else back instead. No one shouts YES!, but rather looks for reasons to
say no.
That's because this time has been all about power, money and control -
being cynical -and creative expression always reflects its time
and place.
The next big thing is everybody.
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