"We do not want to work because work is too slow. We are intractable about progress; progress does not exist for us. We believe in miracle. We believe in the expulsion of all flux in us...
We believe in fiery spirit suddenly consuming us. We believe in a single moment's eternal fulfillment. For our whole life long, we search for the glow from conflagrations on the horizons of our memory, we rush after every hue...
We wish to penetrate alien spaces, we desire to enter into
bodies of strangers, to metamorphose into organ sounds and the vibration of instruments; we want to slip through all cellular clusters of music, out and in, in and out, like lightning strokes...
...And all this we do again and again because at bottom we are never disillusioned. Our hope is immeasurable, our hope that the boundless compression of bliss will blow up everyday life...
Who are we? We are the people of the big cities. We are outcasts, silhouettes between the centuries shot forth like arrows into space. We are those whose skin aches at the idea of postponement, for whom seconds of disappointment can become lifelong scorching wounds of boredom...
Everything must pass so fast that the past hisses up into the air like dust clouds behind motorcars. The air must quiver about us."
From "Der Mensch in Der Mitte" by Ludwig Rubiner, 1919.
1) A look at SELF TRANSCENDING, my signature VideoPainting now on auction as part of @Sothebys "Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale"
This is a vision of the Self as a Strange Loop – a narrative that reiterates itself into infinity.
2) Every new Self informs the next, and it’s up to us to establish harmony within the chaos.
I see this as an evolution of the themes and motifs I have been working with for the past decade. It conveys broad techno-mystical experience as well as personal ascension.
3) The work is inspired by a personal revelation I had when reading about the “wood wide web."
I was struck by a vision of the Internet as the extension of the human nervous system, and the human nervous system as an extension of the mycelial networks of the natural world.
Combining obsolete and cutting edge technology is an aesthetic intervention that lets me transport the viewer outside of their present reality. It's not Here, and it's not Then, so it makes you ask... When?
2) I evoke these mediums of the past in my unique way to serve as a method of conveyance, so you receive my transmissions differently from the multitude of images beaming into your brain at any given moment.
I want to transport you to a dimension of my own definition.
3) From this techno-mystical space, new perspectives emerge.
The Weirdness and the Humor of our Now can be enjoyed from outside looking in – we can gather around the shadow puppets and laugh at our folly in believing any of it to be real.