Artfinder (cont.)

Artfinder is a lot of work. I got up this morning at 6–was at work by 7, and uploaded my 20th photo around 8 PM. Pretty much working on setting up those 13 hours.
Have to stay off the forum… insufferable wanna be capitalists, who have no interest in understanding anything about ‘markets’ and ‘name-branding’, and the role those things play in shaping, and destroying any hope of a humanly habitable world–it’s all what they get out of it.
I got banned the first time I tried to use Artfinder... for “life” … I guess I rose from the dead, or they haven’t connected my new email address with my first intrusion.
I can put up what I make, with no pressure to conform to anyone’s taste, and can list a price with an “accept offers” button.
This is not a market geared to investors, and that’s a good thing. It’s more, home decoration oriented. I ain’t posting any photos of my art over an expensive sofa with carefully arranged cushions.
I wish I lived in the Ox now… I could post ‘context’ photos in the wastelands!
I’m getting lots of ‘likes’ for my art. And 4 got put in ‘carts.’ If I sell one or two a month, I’ll be happy. I’d like to post a few of my more outrageous political pieces–with outrageous prices. Just so peeps paging through the affordable stuff which I do want to sell, would see them.
Better than gathering dust in the basement…. though… they still are. Gathering dust. But not unseen.

Work in Progress #714

Painting as construction. I like to explore patterns and structures as viewed from the extremes of almost microscopic close-ups, and at great distance (as views of the ground from miles above)–patterns and structures structures rich in details, which to our eyes, seem almost unrelated to the the visual world on a human scale. I find myself drawn to images that have broken up into these macro and micro details, a crumbling and dis-integration of our visual world. Just beginning to get to the details on this painting.
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#492 Posthuman City

Lurching this way and that, the hole inside that wants to be filled, wanting and not knowing what, driven and not knowing why or by what. I make art, and strain to set limits to the self-destructive excess.

The only peace, in dreams.

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A detail:
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This is from April, 2016. Did a little more work on it, and mounted and framed it. Ink, Silverpoint and Tombow over metalpoint ground, on a weathered piece of plywood. 76.2×50.8cm (30″x20″)

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Marxism in the Age of Robotics

Welcome to Mars>

Never before has so much been possible. Never before have the consequences of applying old ideas to new conditions been so dire. The outcome of class struggle in our day and tomorrow will determine our collective fate – if we are to have one at all.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolution. Without discussion there can be no theory. Without platforms there can be no discussion.

MARS aims to be a platform for study and discussion of revolutionary theory for our time. We are entering into the unfamiliar, the undiscovered country. We need a place to analyze and understand the astonishing economic and political changes taking place.

Read more at the LINK

#713 Finished (& W.I.P)

40.6 x 50.8cm (16×20) Acrylic on canvas, ink. I’ve been working on getting more contrast in tonal values. I check by viewing in black and white. This one passes.The tonal value of the 3 disks is almost identical if you view this in black and white. Good example of how cool hues recede, and warm hues come forward.

 

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