visiting friends
oceans become mountains. 6" x 4".
currently reading nan shepherd's the living mountain.
"Let this whole horrible chapter of history convince you that money is fake, we can do anything with it we want, and that we do not want cryptoart."
oceans. 12" x 8", black 0.5mm pen.
“Being pretentious is rarely harmful to anyone. Accusing others of it is. You can use the word ‘pretentious’ as a weapon with which to bludgeon other people’s creative efforts, but in shutting them down the accusation will shatter in your hand and out will bleed your own insecurities, prejudices and unquestioned assumptions. And that is why pretentiousness matters. It is a false note of objective judgement and when it rings we can hear what society values in culture, hear how we perceive our individual selves. Pretentiousness matters because of what it teaches us about the creative process."
we've been snowed in before, but for the first time we recently experienced the diabolical slushed in
6" x 4" two color.
"The guru is not exposed as a liar or a lech, a joker or a thief, but “only” a child laughing in the sun. The seeker’s mistake did not lay in identifying something special in this person, but in believing — hoping — that this specialness had something to do with knowing the truth. Instead, the numinous boils down to an ordinary state of radiant and childlike joy."
"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently."
this leads the introduction of can't get you out of my head, adam curtis (2021)
sometimes i think my favorite color is black, yet i keep painting these crystalline rainbows
behold, the great northern winter tomato
"The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
everything is fine
today we ate the weird butternut squash that grew in the compost pile last summer
current research:
"Our perceptions work in large part by expectation. It takes less cognitive effort to make sense of the world using preconceived images updated with a small amount of new information than to constantly form entirely new perceptions from scratch."
how many times can you say
this is the final time
in search of
isometric: having equal measure
isotropic: identical in all directions
isomorphic: similar appearance, different ancestry
isochromatic: same color
isochronal: having the same duration
(the image above started as an isometric projection of filtered noise.)
noise, filters, meaning.
arithmetic, pure number
geometry, number in space
music, number in time
astronomy, number in time and space
starting merlin sheldrake's entangled life (2020) and dreaming about spring. above, dried golden oyster from last fall.
today is september 10001 [web].
a dirge, for the death of the internet. this is the second movement of an unfinished collection.
eternal september ii [mp3]
study in layered ranges of equilateral triangles.
"'Primitive' cultures tend to combine all aspects of their lives-- religion, art, medicine, astronomy and farming-- in a single ritual framework. Construction of a circle must have been a communal effort which aided social cohesion."
art and meaning. no meaning is meaning.
or perhaps all channels of transmission are like old leaky wires full of static.
partial source code for wide awake from gnostics
this recent snow is peculiar.
robert macfarlane tells us there are lost words to describe such peculiarities--- cultures with a hundred words for different snow. this word-hoard sharpens attention. ways of seeing emerge.
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