What is good art? When is an artwork a good artwork? What are the minimal conditions it must comply with? What makes good art, anyway?

It's funny. When I was 16 years old, I wrote down "Ultimately, we just don't know." And now, at 61 years old, that is the only thing I know for sure now: we just don't know, we know nothing, all we do is guess. It's an evolutionary survival mechanism.

Artworks that are generated with AI … is it art?

In an artwork, to what degree may the material used determine your end result, possibly at the cost of your own creative contribution?

In an artwork, to what degree may technique determine your end result at the cost of your own creative contribution?

So far, I wrote 37 stories. Most of them about my artistic philosophy. Most of these stories will be bundled in my art book "Mind Models". So, now it is time to move on to a next phase and focus much more on artworks and artistic techniques.

I am happy to announce that I started editing my first artbook "Mind Models".

Donald D. Hoffman says "veridical perception minimizes expected fitness payoffs": trying to understand how the world really works may reduce your chances of evolutionary survival. By trying to understand how the world works, you may lose focus on what is important to survive. Wow. That blew me in the face.

Just an example of the studies I make before actually creating a painting