Sunday, September 1, 2013

the culmination

 

 

 

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is art’s purpose not to show life in its most transparent form? is it not to reveal those natural structures that lay groundwork for our own rationality, or lack thereof? is it not to expose the minute, the unseen? with nature broken down to its empirical form, as it is now, what then becomes the purpose of art? we seem to have hit a wall, or rather, science.

is art dead?

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Where do we draw the line between art and science? Below is an image of iridescent cells from around the squid eye, taken by today’s featured artist Fernan Federici, that was used in a microscopy experiment at Cambridge University.

 

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Behold, a mantis shrimp-

 

mantis shrimp

by Mother Nature

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Fast forward: at what level of human interference does computer programming, and encrypting, shift from a science to a work of art? What is made of man and what by machine? What’s the difference?

 

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“The time for Beauty is over.

The more art develops, the more scientific it will be, just as science will become artistic. Separated in their early stages, the two will become one again when both reach their culmination.”

-Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

 

Secretsful of Sauce — Plink Flojd: Video by Theodore Darst

 

 

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Adam Ferriss

 

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Tiepolo Sky by my aunt Beth

 

These mountains are so beautiful

 

You nearly drive off

into the clouds and I am spacing

my breath

 

I can’t tell you how frightened I am

because this was my idea      We were near death

 

on the ground

How were we to know

that what is so exquisite

might also be

dangerous

 

We were docile

eroticizing God

           and toxic

  

adam ferriss4

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