“There is only one crime, in the local sense, and that is not to turn blue, if the gods are blue: but, in the universal sense, the one crime is not to turn the gods themselves green, if you’re green.”
ibid.
In Defense of Absurd Cosmologies, part III, or: conclusions drawn from several centuries of odd things falling from the sky
“I suppose that one of our main motives is to show that there is… nothing but the preposterous- or something intermediate to absolute preposterousness and final reasonableness- that the new is the obviously preposterous; that it becomes the established and disguisedly preposterous; that it is displaced, after a while, and is again seen to be preposterous.”
Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned
(italics added)
antediluvian cyberspace
I am terribly pleased to announced that my work has been featured in the first issue of MAKE8ELIEVE, an internet art magazine put together by Michelle Marie Murphy and Baptiste Lefebvre. Michelle and Baptiste have assembled some quite remarkable work by a horde of international artists. Check it out.
somewhat less new new new
new new new
One more time
Continued Intrusions
Further Conceptual Uses of Brass Valves
PBS has put together a nice little short film on steampunk art, and who do you suppose makes an appearance? Here’s the link- wait until the very end…
http://www.pbs.org/arts/gallery/off-book-episode-4-steampunk/off-book-episode-4-steampunk/
A Brief Non-Steampug-Related Interlude
I just completed this:
With this painting (and those that will follow it), I’m trying to get back to some basic aesthetic experimentation. In this case, the test-subject is the interaction of organic and inorganic elements, particularly the intrusion of organic elements into inorganic spaces, and vice versa.
The resulting confrontation is to be approached in an animistic spirit, with both object and space invested with intentionality- that is to say, the object exists actively; it regards its surroundings and, by the same token, its surroundings regard it. This remains however an essentially aesthetic project, and so a secondary concern emerges: intentionality as an aesthetic quality.
Pug Etcetera
So… this:
and this…
Robin Harper Latkovich 