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What Is Art? (Part 1.5): An Integral Approach
In a delightful twist of fate last week, an email appeared on my computer screen (via my subscription to the Core Integral newsletter)...
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Jul 27, 20134 min read
What Is Art? (Part 1): Self Inquiry
“If a tree falls and no one hears it, does it make a sound?” This is the kind of existential crisis I circumnavigate when considering...
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Jul 13, 20133 min read
On The Road 6
In my last few On The Road installments, I posted lots of iPhone photos from a trip across the Pacific early this year. During my stops...
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Jun 13, 20131 min read
Transfiguration: Process
Here are some studio and process shots from the few months’ timespan of painting my latest large work in the Apostasy series:
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May 20, 20131 min read
Transfiguration
Here’s my newest painting in The Apostasy series, in progress since early March and finally completed this week: The Transhumanist...
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May 5, 20131 min read
Shenpa (Towards Healing)
My newest completed painting originated out of the photo shoots I conducted for my 2010 series Rebuilding. The image of extracted hook...
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May 1, 20133 min read
Art From The Edge
My friend Addie over at Fuck Yeah Mad Pride clued me in to a fascinating blog featuring the art of people considered to be in extreme...
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Apr 24, 20133 min read
Endgame IV: Epilogue
My previous post ended with a question, which, unknowingly, had already been answered by the time I’d committed it to words. Two days...
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Apr 10, 20131 min read
Endgame IV
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill began contaminating the Gulf of Mexico, and resisted containment for an agonizing and...
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Apr 5, 20132 min read
Influences 4
Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) Sometime around 2006 or 2007 a close friend lent me a battered, worn out paperback,...
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Mar 14, 20133 min read
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