Art&Language

12.31.2010

12.30.2010

Art&Language

"The concept of making history requires purport and purpose. The required purpose is purpose indexed to a defensible projected view of historical reality."

Making greatness cannot be anticipated.

I've spent some time wondering how to make things that I wanted to make. Then I became preoccupied with making things that mattered and that I wanted to make. Then I lost sight of what I wanted and focused on making things that mattered. When I say that I mean things that matter to the broader history and culture. I wanted to make things that were 'meaningful' and 'thoughtful' but I did not think about actually making things. It was more about ideas that I felt would be regarded well.

My affair with this kind of historiography is dead now. Now that I'm not in the mouth of the beast, I feel I have the ability to stretch my agenda a bit more and enjoy the building up of things, over the building up of ideas.

Defending myself against history is no longer part of my agenda in this. I have to fully break down that impulse, but the initial fissure is there.

1.03.2011

A lot of what I do is compulsive and seemingly senseless, or rather nonsense. Above are a few handi-crafts made for makings sake and displayed to look like buildings.

Can't say much more about them.

Don't hate.

There will be a lot more

Z

Now that I've entered at least the visual constructs of being retired - the distant urban homestead, the hound, the pipe and reclusive informational overload - I feel like I can start to talk about what happened. Not like it was bad. It was mediocre. It was intoxicating and at times made me feel real shitty. Seldom was it satisfying. Whatever it was called, it had to do with art and the way people interacted with it. It was scholarly and gossipy and gross. Simply, it was a scene, and not much of one speak of.

But I'm gonna try. I'm gonna spend some time going through the last few years. Its the last of the unpacking we have to do up here. Go through the art-shit. This could be called artshitstory then.

Sprinkle in some contemporary ramblings and you've got yourself something to read sometimes.

3.02.2011