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How do we balance the oncoming collapse and our incessant need to delve into convoluted extractions of visual culture. I'm not going to pretend I don't find anything interesting in the new art criticism and its multifaceted layers of self-gratification and eclecticism, but is it preservable? When a society breaks down and its imperial systems begin to deconstruct, objects become new sources of symbolic stimuli. The imperial (or capitalist) economy changed the classification and context of each and every object in the western world (by way of expropriation and assimilation); the 'art' object has become linked to a kind of status ascendancy. So when such a system breaks down, what do we do with all the abstract expressionists, colour field painters, minimalists, conceptual artists and new postmodernists (the second half of the 20th centuries modern 'progress' builders)? Do we bargain with art museum elitists (Marc Mayer...?) for local produce in lieu of pretentious public access fees? Probably not. May'be we can just look from the outside in like me and my dad used to do at the oversized glass display case that is the Museum of Anthropology.

Dear Derek Carlson: Please start a blog.

well...

it's happening all over again...

Anngjerd Rustand

Erratic

2010

image source: http://anngjerd.no/

Unstable and apprehensive, a suspended vortex.

This is kinda how I feel today.