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WHEN FACING DEATH

9/19/2023

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When confronted with an illness such as cancer that really has no magical pill but is at the mercy of trial and error by contemporary medical people, you begin to see what life is really all about.
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And you realize that we all have a “Rendezvous With Death” at some point sooner or later in life. That we are just another aspect of Nature like the trees and birds and our bodies will return to the earth. We are in fact “Earthlinks”.
But since you can’t believe that is all there is, as you have tasted Love and Soul then you realize whatever more there is, it is all “Hidden In The Eyes”.

The bad and the good exist together like night and day and “Bewilderment” is our constant companion. But if you look with Love at each and every moment Life is beautiful! And facing death transports you there like nothing else can.


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ALICE TODAY

9/17/2023

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“Wonderland is a place of madness. ‘We’re all mad here,’ states the Cheshire cat.” Through the eyes of society, one who questions, and perhaps especially the seemingly basic things may be labelled mad. And society is in fact ripe for questioning, between the extreme inequality of wealth distribution and lack of real movement on Climate Change. Global Warming is causing floods, fires and brimstones and yet the Oil Industry is untouched preferring to pray rather than quit mining.

It is the White Rabbit who leads Alice down the rabbit hole. It is he who woke her up from her daze since the hot day had made her sleepy.
By ignoring the reality of our existence we are feigning sleep while awake and carrying on with life as if nothing is happening. The death toll from devastating flooding in Libya's eastern coastal city of Derna has risen to 11,3000, according to a recent UN report.

Fires are causing people to have breathing and lung problems. Hurricanes are devastating whole islands, like Hawaii and coastal shores. And yet we sleep, allowing billionaires to convince us that as long as their profits are intact we will be okay.

Capitalism, that may have served us well in the beginning is now a rapacious greedy entity eating our very life. We have devastated Nature to the max and Nature is rebelling.

It is the White Rabbit which Alice runs after and searches for endlessly in Wonderland, a symbol of her quest for knowledge. Just when things seem rather desperate the rabbit appears yet again, and Alice drives on through.
Symbolically this means we need to overthrow the warm fuzzy mantle of what was comfortable and face life head-on, we need to dance and shout and act MAD to move the powers-at-be to change their course before it is too late.
Artists more than ever need to be vigilant and vocal. No longer preoccupied with just abstract aesthetic values but speak and shout on behalf of the world and life.

Lewis Carroll constantly asserts the essence of nothingness: ‘If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?’

Yes the other side of earthly existence exists like a two faced coin, but we won’t really learn of it until we are dead. Nothingness awaits, but until then, we have a duty to fight for the survival of the earth, for the sake of those humans yet to come.


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Problem of Perception

6/23/2023

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To me the problem of perception is that we try to make analogies of our way of seeing with machines, cameras, etc...all based on playing around with information until something interesting emerges. But in reality seeing is a function of our inherent co-dependence on Nature. Seeing is related to our Intuitive abilities of that 90% brain capacity that has nothing to do with information or intellect. It is immediate and visceral and void of analysis. In fact the miute you name a thing you stop seeing it. That is why thinking and painting don't go well together at the same time...
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AI

5/8/2023

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 The purpose of AI is not to help you make your workload better and faster but to stop you from thinking and challenging your brain. When we all start using AI there will be no need for critical thinking or creative thought. Techno-Billionaires will be telling us what to do every step of the way. Regular humans will no longer be free.

Visual artists will stop existing giving birth to techies that can talk to an app about what they wan to see and it will appear on the screen. Some artists say that the creativity lies in editing algorithms. Sorry but visuals were always related to intuition in my humble estimation and not language or words.

So the art that is being produced using AI is soulless, pretty, and  meaningless fluff sans emotions.

​Not worried about AI? You should be!

I never say hello or anything to anyone trying to phone me because it is very easy to put an app on your phone cloning my voice with just one word. Also you can get another app that clones your face from any picture on social media. Together AI can make videos of you so accurate you could FaceTime with your grandmother! If that is not enough they are cloning human brain cells into these computers and one day these robots will wipe us out because they won't need us anymore...just the way construction workers wipe out ants in their digging, with no malice.

​Most professions will become defunct!
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The Dumbing Down

3/9/2023

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The fastest dumbing down of our society is happening on instagram reels, podcasts and workshops. People have learned a bit about electromagnetic energy and all they want us to do is to start controlling our mind so only positive thoughts supposedly related to positive energy are created by us. Ridiculous assumption overlooking years of academics like Jung, Freud and Wise men that showed us how being unaware of what we truly feel and acknowledging it, leads to suffering and mental illness ultimately.

Not to mention ignoring Zen masters that teach about being with what is and leaving things alone, in other words STOP trying to live EGO first. Ego control leads to unhappiness only.

Today I actually heard an artist say while throwing buckets of paint on the canvas, "If you are not happy, there is no point in having a long life, better to have a short happy one." Tell that to the suffering, homeless and sick you uncompassionate moron I say!

No wonder we are embracing AI and robots, they are always feeling nothing! We idolize that in our mechanistic society, encouraged by billionaires who only want us to be their slaves!
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It is also no wonder there is no respect for artists if all they are concerned about is getting their own jollies.
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Mortification Not Perfection

6/7/2022

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How do we pass the time between the first cup of coffee in the morning and the last glass of wine at night? 
We go about our daily life trying to suck out the most juicy morsels of happiness we can with a bit of thought that we need to stay fit and healthy for as long as we can. 
Occasionally a spark of purity of thought occurs, squelched quickly by insistent emails and instagram and facebook friends sharing their last meal.
No time to purify anything because we are on overdrive to not miss the possibility of another moment of happiness. 
And who dictates  what it is to be? 
Our advertisers forever on guard to catch the unsuspecting mind into acquiring yet more and better stuff; keep them longing for far away lands, for more love (really only sex) for who has time for love in our mad rush to be happy. 
We glance at our iPhone every few minutes for a sign that we are on the right track and will soon be rewarded.
What track?
Fast track to no man’s land, the land of machine bothood, programmed by the needy rich with gaping holes for mouths.
And we allow ourselves to believe the next dress, car, barbecue or trip will matter, will make our existence meaningful.
And we walk by the homeless, shot children, the hungry while some gorge.
All the while hoping that machines will set us free, immune to impinging artificial waves on our brains. Willing to trade our dying souls for material comfort.
For who has time for soul searching? Not even the lifestyle gurus that confuse aerobics with real meditation, the kind that purifies your mind and soul. They feel high and think that is soul.
But alas soul requires heart, tears and gnashing of teeth when confronted with present day reality, a delving into the deep gut wrenching abyss of mortification and not a quest for perfection.
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Era of Positive Thinking

5/12/2022

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The role of art critic is flushed down the toilet along with critical thinking in our era of positivity, not positivity of doing just thinking.

The more we try to be positive it seems the worse our world gets.

Why? Ego is always motivated by desire for oneself, of happiness, money, beauty, fame, success etc. Ego thinks it is God. But in fact it is a recipe for spiritual death.

Doing positive acts towards others brings us out of our ego and closer to God. As does being able to scrutinize ourself realistically and change what needs to go.

So in the art world when we stopped being critical of art and life, it became dead.

Visual art became mickey mouse and a poem became kitsch.

Imagine being positive only when writing a poem.

"The deep crimson blood gushing from the beautiful cut impaled by my foot, sprinked red shiny drops on mossy green lawn creating a Pollock masterpiece." hahahahahaha
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Used Art Salesmen

4/21/2022

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Who are the artists who sell well? Generally we would like to believe it is the artist that has the best art that sells well. And maybe that was true a few centuries ago when traditional art was the norm. Art that had great technique and also evoked emotions and had something to say.

Artists produced their art and someone else looked after publicity, exhibitions, and putting together bios as well as marketing. Usually a number of people. Then there were art critics who wrote about their work  and established its validity in the marketplace.
Now art needs not be technically accurate, say anything at all or evoke any kind of emotional response. So who decides what is good art?

Some say it is the unwashed masses who want to buy your work…

So do artists need to appeal to their sensibilities…? No, they just have to be good salesmen.

Artists are no longer just mandated with producing art but also have to be publicity star, networking schmoozers, write glowingly about themselves, pay for exhibiting their work and find venues to exhibit and above all, be  great salesmen.

Selling is an art form in itself and good used car salesmen will tell you, you have to be born with the right gene. Actors are probably the closest that come to having such a gene.

Actors are by nature extraverted, whereas visual artists are mostly introverts. A good salesman needs to be extraverted, charismatic and know how to charm and convince people. Most visual artists I know don’t even want to schmooze at their own shows and generally are shy and would much prefer being alone. Otherwise they would have chosen to be actors.

So thus we have a bind, where visual artists are expected to be all and everything, and in the end develop split personalities or simply give up focus on their art and become great salesmen.

Those are the artists that sell well and what they produce matters very little. And if they thought about it for a while they would have used their selling skills in a car lot for a hell of a lot more money than they are probably getting now for their art.

But there is always a subtle urge to be famous that comes with artistic endeavours, even though we know the possibility is one in a billion but then we remember Van Gogh who sold nothing in his lifetime.

The problem for us now however is the small matter of how we spend our time producing art. Van Gogh had a brother who supported him and he didn’t have to do anything else except paint and observe nature and life. We however don’t have that luxury needing to make a living and interact with the market place. This takes more time than actually art-working. ​

The industrial age effectively killed great art and is now producing great used car salesmen.
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ART &  WAR

4/20/2022

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Katia Grubisic, a poet and writer for The Walrus a canadian magazine wrote that..”In the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many of us were in shock and were doing whatever we could to help. A number of cultural organizations—orchestras, arts councils, museums—reacted by withdrawing support for Russian artists and arts organizations. But does cancelling artists do more harm than good?” And she concludes it is “knee-jerk wartime discrimination.”​

I now know for sure why I have stopped reading The Walrus a longtime ago. First of all to say that watching thousands of women and children die before your eyes on social media everyday is no longer shocking says more about Katia than us,. Secondly I listened and watched famous Russian artists talk about the war in Ukraine saying how much they support Putin and Mother Russia and one even added that all Ukrainians should die!

There is no inherent value in being an artist that makes you stand above being a decent human being. Nazis artists that promote killing have really nothing of value to offer the world and should be shunned.

Real artists are sensitive compassionate humans and abhor violence. If they portray it in their art it is to wake people up to its horrors, not to show how lovely and innocuous it is. Many artists stopped creating during WWII as a sign of rebellion and disgust with the war.

Art writers that think otherwise should stop writing.
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Is Stardust Disappearing From Our Part Of The Cosmos???

9/28/2021

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We all know now that we are star material, proven by physics. Energy knows no boundaries and when people meet in person their energies mingle and create a form of communication that is new each time. When people face each other instead of FaceTime, there is an acknowledgement of a force greater than just worldly existence, matter.

Touching hands brings joy and confirmation of our existence, not because it is just a sensual act but also because it intertwines our energies. For where two or three are gathered in the name of love, there is a force activated that is greater than the sum of its parts.

What is happening in the digital age? We are focussed only on ourselves, isolated and living in our minds. Even if we have 5K followers we contact with everyday it does not give the surge of power that contact with even our pet does.

​Why? Because love does not come into our intellectual exchanges on facetime.


We can try to pretend it does and attempt to manufacture it artificially in our heads but is a broken connection from the star world.

The further we develop into walking robots glued to our iPhones the less star dust will exist in the world. We are rich in technology and bereft of love and joy as the two go hand in hand.
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Contemporary art portrays the disconnect of ourselves from the very fabric of existence, the star dust we are, and no amount of travel to Mars will change that.
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