stray alchemist

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If an artist is invested in what he/she does there is little possibility of disassociating the maker from the work.

When work is specifically about the artist or

if the work is dependent on what the artist-figure is occupied with,

then the maker can have no real distance from the work.

The artist and the work are unified as a hermetic structure, isolated from outside influence.
critical theory ruptures artistic practice

even as its aphoristic obscurity is lampooned

by the way string falls
wondering if its just another paranoid inscription onto full forms of evident energy,

still mysterious and essentially arbitrary

like the way string draws

embracing uncertainty

Striving for a kind of openness while accepting a certain level of mystery,

the understanding that you cannot know everything.

Getting to know ones world becomes less about living in it

and more about sifting through its amusing fragments.

Without indulging in nostalgia for what is gone

one suggestion might be that the means of seeing and showing supplants what is to be seen