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Our lives are made of images; the whole world is speaking visually. Before the invention of language, crude images were etched onto cave walls indicating the hopes and dreams of the tribe. These scribbles whether they knew it or not connected human intent and imagination to the outside world. When the corresponding image was seen in real life, the scribble became pregnant with meaning. Suddenly the scribble has become a symbol. Now it speaks without words or sound. Over time, common, reoccurring imagery condensed into ideograms, abstractions which were at once farther away from the original idea yet expanded the human mind exponentially. This simple process of recursion continues right up to the present. The creation of truly striking imagery still requires that we return to that very basic place. For me, speaking visually is about communicating the journey back to the source of the meanings as much as it is a story about where we can go from here. I want to imbue the image itself with the map that got me here, because it has been so valuable and it was only borrowed to begin with. That honesty mixes with the artifice of our present world of endlessly cycling styles and trends so that at ANY INSTANCE it can become vital again. Again, this is not an idea I consider mine, but rather something that is simply a truth. Artists have always been directly involved in the creation of imagery that inflames the human soul, and in this hyper-mediated digital landscape more people than ever are learning to speak visually. It's a slow process and we're constantly getting caught in the spiderweb of fetishized self-images we sell back to each other to turn the wheels of capitalism, it's true. But we trudge on, stumbling on through the blinding darkness. And our cave paintings? They GLOW.Related content
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all humanity is is exponential feedback, abstraction that is defined and remembered and refined.
though, there is a theory that humanity (as opposed to animals) was created by a fundamental change in the brain relating to the way it deals with what we know as hallucinogens, psilocybin mushrooms being incredibly ancient and growing all over the world. i dont know anything about it, but recently, when i look at things i see things differently, and it makes a huge amount of sense.
what do you think?
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im familiar with the idea. its main exponent was terrence mckenna and you can read all about it in his book food of the gods. basically it stems from the fact that so little is known about the origin of language and consciousness. part of what he wanted to do was recontextualise the psychedelic situation that had exploded in america in the 60s into something more useful than it had become, tho he had no desire to actually prove that his theory - more like he was suggesting different ways of looking at these things. if nothing else it certainly seems reasonable to see the self-reflexive element of an entheogenic experience acting as a catalyzing agent and you could easily extrapolate that it was one of the ORIGINAL catalyzing agents for this madness we call human history.
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there is a fire inside that painting. that is for sure.
as one looks at the picture, it glows and tears down walls in the cornea & then building them back up with emotion.
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