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Two New Paintings

Will and want

It is all too easy to choose mediocrity through passivity, to drown in a sea of honey, thick and viscous. A slow death. I have to be laser clear and impermeable. I have to be solid enough to let it roll off my flanks, to not be softened into uselessness. I don’t expect you to listen or anyone to listen unless I make it worth their while. I want to give people something, more than something for their efforts. A squalling child, a blind arrogant brute all want to be felt, heard by virtue of their want. Why don’t you care? Why won’t you listen? I don’t want pity or to trade in obligation. I want to be good.

- Hayley Bracken

Let us redefine our lexicon

Let us redefine our lexicon and reject (though not completely, not to reject the role of the lexicon itself) these terms that only serve to distance us from what they supposedly try to bring us closer to and instead use these definitions as articulations of exactly  what they are not. Exactly, but not completely, for while we can achieve a pseudo-exactness of what it is not, what it is will be forever ambiguous. Let us reject education and its pedagogical implication of teacher and student. Let us reject meaning as an objective existence. Reject artist and its companion genius, as if what the artist expresses is not the shared existence of experience, as if to create ‘art’ is different in any way from the perception of art beyond the individual satisfactions of those involved. In their absence let the mediating charms of communication, subjectivity and ambiguity unite the dissonance of our existence. Let knowledge be a dialogical expression of philosophy with endless equilibrium as the closest form it takes to definition with knowledge being used in the vaguest sense to embody any single will, emotion or thought of unbound potential and communication as the means, or the medium, in which its conveyance is attempted.

Paranoia

Paranoiac-critical activity organizes and objectivizes in an exclusivist manner the limitless and unknown possibilities of the systematic association of subjective and objective ‘significance’ in the irrational…

…it makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality

- Salvador Dali, Conquest of the Irrational

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Robert Hughes ‘The Mona Lisa Curse’