The Plateau of Rivers region of the Sahara desert contains about 15,000 pieces of rock art, made by societies between 12,000 and 3,000 years ago. It made me think. In 3,000 to 12,000 years from now, what will be remembered of our society?
My personal believe is that people who long for a greater life often are lonely. Maybe, they are not alone, but they feel lonely. I strongly believe that we are a deeply social species, with a deeply social brain.
I find it difficult to have a love relationship with an artwork. After all, any artwork is banal dead matter, a piece of canvas and dried paint, a piece of marble, metal, whatever. Still, people do fall deeply in love with artworks. How does that work?
First, I was caught by the Vincent Syndrome: a good artist must be poor and suffering. Now, I know better. Maybe the very best old master who ever lived, Rembrandt van Rijn, was a successful artist-entrepreneur.
I have this recurring thought in my head. I see it everywhere. Are we as a species at the brink of a big split between those who want to remain who we are and stick to traditional values and those who want to improve themselves into super-humans?
I want to make the first ever statue on the Moon of a ladder and an astronaut. The ladder, permanently pointing upwards, to the center of Earth. The astronaut, home sick, or saying good-bye forever.
I was thinking about how to express mind models in an artwork. I think I will experiment with expressing different realities as different layers, each with their own artistic expression about the topic of the artwork.
What is the purpose of art? And does modularity matter, at all? I think it does. For me, it is an integral part of the expressive power of an artwork. Doesn't have to be a painting or sculpture. May also be a firework or your life.
Why not create physical artworks from the digital artworks? Just like eg. photos can be printed in series, signed and numbered? Giclee could be a start. But the technology must be improved.
