Time flies when you're having blog...started this one week ago today.

Much more start-up time than I anticipated; a lot more energy required to do it right (however does Julie do the Julie/Julia Project, I wonder, and blog as well? <wryly picturing typing with buttery-fingers, balancing a quiche on one knee>). 

Maybe writing more notes on the fly would help; I tend to sit and do a brain-dump all at one time. 

How do the rest of you manage your blogging?

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Food for thought...try viewing some of Fischl's other sculptures and ask yourself these same questions.

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Another clear, early autumn morning here.  The clarity's definitely outside, though.  My head's buzzing, between quantum physics, social emergence and art theory.  I thought I'd be doing something purgative by unloading this kind of stuff in my head into a blog; it's actually done the opposite, accelerated its growth.  I can't unload fast enough.  Anybody else have this experience?  Shouldn't they post a warning at the "Start your own Blog" link, like, "at your own risk"...?  might have given me pause (momentarily...maybe, "blogging can be hazardous to your mental health" - ?). 

So now to the task at hand - unloading some stuff: quantum physics, in relation to string theory and cellular automata will have to weight for a critical mass of data before I can blog more...social emergence has been on the tip of my tongue (fingertips?) for a week, and won't gel sufficiently to come out (like a clogged ballpoint pen, the ink is there, but freeing it could be a bigger mess than starting with a fresh pen). 

Art theory, on the other hand, is much riper and somewhat ready to harvest.

Following my blog yesterday, been exchanging comments with The Raven; at the last, whether violence/counter-violence is warranted, when art itself maybe violent (correct me if I'm wrong here).  You can check the exchange at Raven's blog. 

After a bit more thinking, IMHO art is all about the chaos-order continuum; by its very nature, art's an attempt to order or re-order along that continuum.  The artist intends to make manifest an outward expression of the inward content through manipulation of media.  Granted, both inward content and outward expression may be chaotic, but the outward expression is limited and therefore more ordered than chaotic.  The very act of mirroring chaos limits and checks it, moving it toward order.  The viewer/participant/consumer/explorer (VPCE) further limits and orders/re-orders the expression, as it is logged and subsumed into consciousness; the VPCE's state of conscious restricts the act of subsuming, particularly if the artist and the VPCE are not in the same state of consciousness.  (Note how any couple of people can see much different things in the same artwork - and the difference between their assessment and the artist's intent.)

<Whew> That's not very tightly written, but there's a lot of trash floating around in my head, I just want this out, right now.  You can reorder this concept around by yourself.  Be sure to tell me if there's an art guru who's agreed/disagreed with this idea.  I'm no art major, but I'm open to learning more.

I'm already thinking about interpretation of art and the artist's/VPCE's state of consciousness, in relation to human emergence.  Why is it that a child's work is only an explorative expression, while Grandma Moses' work is naive art?  Do we allow for the artist's consciousness in our interpretive process?  If so, should we allow for the consciousness of Hirst* and Fischl**? or will this effort require us to attain a particular state consciousness before we can extend this slack?

Gotta' do something else for a while...like wash floors or shred mail.  Something more purgative than blogging.  Maybe I should paint or sculpt.

[*Artist who commented in re: WTC attack: "visually stunning"; **artist, "Tumbling Woman"]

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