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  • The Miracle of Power

    Manufacturing an Infallible Leader History shows how authoritarian leaders manufacture their own origin stories. Take Hitler’s early rise: Nazi propaganda framed his success as divinely guided or a miracle. Hitler encouraged this, once stating: “That you have found me… among so many millions is the miracle of our time!”.This isn’t just vanity; it’s a political

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  • Big Beautiful Bill

    With the encroachment—and enrichment—of AI (and I’m using this term collectively, not the individual systems and models) on the beckoning periphery, did anyone bother to put this BBB through analysis? And did anyone consider how we test these so-called financial and social and governmental measures before going Live. Why must we live with these decisions

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  • Why Hybrid Media?

    An artist might choose hybrid media to seamlessly integrate traditional and digital techniques, capitalizing on the tactile authenticity of physical mediums (like painting or printmaking) while leveraging the precision and versatility of digital tools. This approach allows them to layer diverse textures, styles, and processes to achieve depth and complexity, pushing the boundaries of their

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  • Until

    you think you know me? you’ll figure me out with butterfly labels, flitting and flailing. until my labels, bombard me. enticing me into chambers unknown. becoming poetry in slow motion. you still can’t know me.

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  • Robert Adams

    I put my thinking together from concepts that are less than clear. I put my phrases together with words whose meanings are less than certain. I don’t see tables, I don’t see chairs, I see only works of art. I have no alternative lifestyle. For me, every day is Sunday. The sorting out of our

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  • Curating

    Recently, I asked ChatGPT to provide an objective POV in curating our media works, and the considerations on usage/potential usage of identical images with both color and monochrome versions. Assuming they each communicate at the aesthetic level expected, and that would most likely not be shown in the same venue (unless the display is about

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  • Intention

    Carolyn Parker’s contemplative, artistic approach to her present work references psychology, society, mysticism, divinity, unity and regional observation, for starters. Studies of these topics guide her in creating metaphorical meanings from an internal cosmological perspective, which extends beyond the logical and literal. She strives to access and pay visual homage to artifacts and ephemera of

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