About All The Fuss.

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Somewhere along the spectrum of curiosity, attraction, obsession and connoisseurship, we all use art - because we find meaning in it.

 

We have many ways of using it, including (but not only) as environment, recreation, politics, therapy, and currency.

 

But a lot of the time, it’s just cool. Cooler than that other thing you were paying attention to.

 

​Meanwhile, all art is work. The work is about finding out how meaning is generated from composing materials. Material can be a sensation, an idea, an action or a substance – types manipulated individually or together. Then, we get to use what we made.

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Just as for most people, materiality was originally only intuitive for us students; we didn't know anything about it, but we knew what we liked. Later, probably due to marketing and combat socializing, materiality started to become far more consciously explicit as the way to exert influence and pass or fail the Who Cares Test.

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In 1972, did we know what to do about it? Of course not.

 

Also, we were not yet fully past being hormonal teenagers; there was no social media; and everyone failed to herd us, or to stop us arriving from all directions.

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Okay, we were offered guidance.

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And equipment.

Then, degrees. 

Not bad!

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But, everything after that was our fault. 

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Today, we're older and smarter?

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The wise philosopher Wallace Shawn once said "Never start a land war in Central Asia..."

We totally blew by that piece of advice.

We went all over the place. Our stuff went in all directions.

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It turns out, 'though, after being apart for decades, we still like to hang out, and hang stuff up, together. We just needed an excuse. Like, half an excuse.

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We're gettin' the band back together again.

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Seriously. Why stop now?

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Show's open. Sit anywhere you like. 

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Or, not. We're also bringing back surfing. Remember when people used to do that, on the web? You can do that, here. I know, right?! 

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Click the Home button below. 

Use the menu, shamelessly, brazenly... I mean, really own it. 

Rummage. Think stuff over. Change your mind repeatedly. Form opinions.

Then, go do that speak-truth-to-power thing while the feeling lasts. You know you want to.

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