I was perusing an artifact from about thirteen, fourteen years ago? A strange work of art made in collaboration with another guy while we were working a job that gave us time to do things with our hands. There’s a kind of intensity to it that boggles my mind – so much work went into this thing, so much creativity. Makes me wonder – was that it? The apex of my life, from which all else is downhill? If so, that was a rather shameful waste of an entire human existence. It is fundamentally not good.
Well, another year is dawning soon, and with that another opportunity to prove to myself that I can still make good stuff happen. 2022, Hell save us.
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Picture is missing…?
In the plaster mines under Paris there is a detailed facade of a castle carved into the gypsum, in what is not the catacombs. I always wondered what the person who did that was thinking. Probably “…bored.” But maybe that was your experience. I see these things as primal existentialism: we do them because we can, not because it makes any sense in any other time or place or to any other person.
Oh I didn’t post a link to the art in question. It was a large volume of work that would take some time to make viewable on internet, and it would get me cancelled (TM) besides lol.
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It was a large volume of work that would take some time to make viewable on internet, and it would get me cancelled (TM) besides lol.
Make millions selling NFTs!
except that ship has sailed.
NFTs collapsed? all the google results are from summer and i still read about those fuckin things all the time. hm.
“There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time is an ingredient, but into a perfect work time does not enter, he said to himself, It shall be perfect in all respects, though I should do nothing else in my life. He proceeded instantly to the forest for wood, being resolved that it should not be made of unsuitable material; and as he searched for and rejected stick after stick, his friends gradually deserted him, for they grew old in their works and died, but he grew not older by a moment. His singleness of purpose and resolution, and his elevated piety, endowed him, without his knowledge, with perennial youth. As he made no compromise with Time, Time kept out of his way, and only sighed at a distance because he could not overcome him. Before he had found a stock in all respects suitable the city of Kouroo was a hoary ruin, and he sat on one of its mounds to peel the stick. Before he had given it the proper shape the dynasty of the Candahars was at an end, and with the point of the stick he wrote the name of the last of that race in the sand, and then resumed his work. By the time he had smoothed and polished the staff Kalpa was no longer the pole-star; and ere he had put on the ferule and the head adorned with precious stones, Brahma had awoke and slumbered many times. But why do I stay to mention these things? When the finishing stroke was put to his work, it suddenly expanded before the eyes of the astonished artist into the fairest of all the creations of Brahma. He had made a new system in making a staff, a world with full and fair proportions; in which, though the old cities and dynasties had passed away, fairer and more glorious ones had taken their places. And now he saw by the heap of shavings still fresh at his feet, that, for him and his work, the former lapse of time had been an illusion, and that no more time had elapsed than is required for a single scintillation from the brain of Brahma to fall on and inflame the tinder of a mortal brain. The material was pure, and his art was pure; how could the result be other than wonderful?”
— Walden
oh thoreau, would you have thunk the same of my book full of cartoon tiddies and prewokenment edgelordery?