Tuesday, January 5, 2010

End of Linear

Linear art that marks the past perspectives of society, is coming to a end. Writing in linear forms, pencil and paper ... where do you even find a pencil sharpener? It's perty much already happened, and the university system is just propogating museum pieces of thought. But does anyone even know what I'm talking about?

In the old days, the big "deal" was drawing and painting in perspective ... basically optics ... which is tracing lines. This is perty obvious in ancient greek works, and became de facto standard in anything past Leonardo's time. Lines, planes, squares, etc ... basically all represent linear systems which are flat to life. The algebra of linear thought is embedded in our institutions, and the error is only visible via exposed gaps to reality.

Lines got mushed and tumbled a bit in the last hundred years, but it all basically follows some tired linear flow ... what the eye can see. What the eye cannot see is touch and tension, probability and options, this is what the future of art is about ... and really ... anyone looking around ... see's the world on a exponential curve.

I think this is what art should focus on, helping people understand the tensional and exponential possibilities that are hitting us every day. The linear artifacts in politics and religion are twisting like buildings that have been exposed to time, if artist are to have a productive place in the future of society, they can help our minds adapt to the unfolding tensions we are all experiencing.

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