Thread by @FendeVilliers

1/12 I appreciate the mention @DoctorEllwanger @theammind although the general framing is too muddied by theory and pretentiously convoluted. It is worth addressing this notion of trying to label a nascent current.

2/12 The whole essay is long and addresses many familiar faces here. It lightly touches on my art and what he thinks is my mental framework. Adam unfortunately gets caught up in his own theoretical weeds and it becomes needlessly overcomplicated.

3/12 I look at our time intuitively and do not busy my mind with tight theoretical doctrines and the do's and don'ts of an instruction manual. Artists do not operate in this manner and neither does the spark of creation.

4/12 During my most recent exhibition I was asked about my interest in the Futurists. I am inspiring on the visual language due to its aesthetic force, ferocity and unapologetic life expression. Not following their manifesto dogmatically or LARPing as one.

5/12 Our current cultural time should be viewed on the grounds of the energy that emanates out from it. We live in a period when the creative vital forces have been occulted and all that remains is cold ash, devoid of life giving nourishment.

6/12 Postmodern-contemporary visual art has become weaponised and acts mostly as a propagandistic black hole that is used to occult and starve true vital expression and its means to proliferate.

7/12 The rich aesthetic ferocity of the early modernists and in particular the Futurists is worth looking at because of its direct visual confidence and unapologetic glory. It is a spiritual counter to our state of anti-dynamism and waning spirit. It is my visual starting point.

8/12 This is addressed in one of my previous threads related to "RETVRNING"

9/12 Inspiring on the fire that was left to us by early modernism is simply a piecing together of a language and mode of expression. As an artist you pick up the flame and begin to rekindle. Everything is based on that which came before. Where will it go? No one truly knows.

10/12 But the archetypes are timeless and are within us as a people. The expressions and visuals they embody at the present time are up to the artists to decide. Society changes and moves but the archetypal energies remain eternal, as they always have.

11/12 What can we take away from this notion in Ellwangers essay? At the heart of all nascent societal currents is a raw fire. Do not label it, do not try to package it, do not over analyse it into dissolution. Live it, be it and follow where the energy collectively guides you.

12/12 One thing is for sure, when the vital force returns, it will rip through our Western culture. It will come in a great wave with explosive force that can no longer be contained. Ride that wave and be with it, this will be the start of the next cultural cycle.