Today, reading an article in the New York Times, I learned of the Nebra Sky Disk. This disk of metal, depicting constellations of the night sky, has been called “the oldest known depiction of astronomical phonemena.” I was fascinated. I learn. I take an interest in odd things. I develop peculiar enthusiasms. Curious since boyhood, Read More
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Brian Lucas on Unlocking a Secret Code to a Bountiful and Utopian “Nowhere”
What is art? Is it necessary? Why?
Ideally a cosmic situationism, a messaging system; a wound, tongue, and nutrient; the ongoing ritual of an innate and unavoidable urge to transmit meaning and experience symbolically; an often unheard, but needed cry in the desert. A way of thinking, an alchemical or magical process. It’s necessary to me for these reasons. It gives substance to life.