It has been a long time since I've written. Though I haven't stopped riding my bike. Actually I deleted posts I felt they were too personal and I became uncomfortable. I stopped in at Arcana book store on Washington Blvd. basically Helms Bakery in Culver City. It is a beautiful and fun place to get lost in, they specialize in books on art. I basically creep around there and open up whatever catches my attention. I am realizing my eye is very pleased by paintings having to do with life and WWI around 1914. As I flip through books, I think, these people's paintings based on horrific events and fear about an uncertain future, and WE DIDN'T GET IT WE MISSED IT COMPLETELY.
This is only one example because I want to move on. I then came across A Year From Monday. A book of lectures and writings by John Cage I skipped around the book at first, he was cracking me up. And then I decided to start at the beginning. In his foreword the second paragraph last sentence he writes.
The disciplines ,gradual and sudden, formerly practiced by individuals to pacify their minds, bringing them into accord with ultimate reality, must now be practiced socially- that is, not just inside our heads, but outside of them, in the world, where our central nervous system effectively now is.
This book was first published in 1963. It is astounding to me that people can reveal the future to us and also have a positive outlook, and still we can't see it more than fifty years later more than one hundred years later. To take pictures of oneself and project them through social media is counterproductive. It is remaining in your head and becomes a reality only to those individuals. Social media is a platform for change. And though I am working to make my positive impact through art, I can eliminate photos of my good side as a possibility for that.
The disciplines ,gradual and sudden, formerly practiced by individuals to pacify their minds, bringing them into accord with ultimate reality, must now be practiced socially- that is, not just inside our heads, but outside of them, in the world, where our central nervous system effectively now is.
This book was first published in 1963. It is astounding to me that people can reveal the future to us and also have a positive outlook, and still we can't see it more than fifty years later more than one hundred years later. To take pictures of oneself and project them through social media is counterproductive. It is remaining in your head and becomes a reality only to those individuals. Social media is a platform for change. And though I am working to make my positive impact through art, I can eliminate photos of my good side as a possibility for that.
Max Beckamann
Night, 1918/19
oil on Canvas
Night, 1918/19
oil on Canvas
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