The Artist as Conscious Ritualer Par Excellence
There is more subtlety and more nuance in real human relationships than in any work created by an artist (by artist, I am not referring to pop artists or celebrities, but creators whose art most people don’t “get”). One might even suggest that artists lack a sense for human artifice,Continue Reading
My Qualiadelic Philosophy
My qualiadelic philosophy is a mere framework, a skeleton, a blueprint or a map that helps me know the world. It is like a child’s sketch of a tree, or a house, or a face – poor art, perhaps, but charming. Living it, though, when I notice new qualia orContinue Reading
Happy Thoughts
Our “happy” thoughts may be crude or refined, but happy thoughts evolve over a lifetime. In an addictive world like ours, we may like our beer or sex or whatever, but at some point the thought of beer and sex is better than the beer and sex itself. Then weContinue Reading