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This studio of mine\u00a0is humming with work right now, which is why it’s been so long since I’ve posted anything. I have a backlog of about a dozen posts I want to write, including a long conversation I had with Jim Mott recently, as well as an assortment of random thoughts, some long overdue praise for a long-gone\u00a0Thiebaud exhibit I saw at Aquavella, \u00a0and hopefully something about the fine\u00a0new show of quasi-Tonalist contemporary work at Oxford Gallery right now, if I can pull away from painting long enough to focus on this blog. I’m almost done with work for my\u00a0two-person show in March at Oxford, but still have plenty left to do–slowly and steadily–<\/em>which generates a bit of anxiety as time grows short and the work proceeds at its own insistently careful pace. I’m loving\u00a0the work though.<\/p>\n

I’m also going to do a series of posts in reaction to my impulse purchase of\u00a0The Birth of Tragedy, <\/em>through the\u00a0Kindle app on my tablet. I’ve been devouring\u00a0it over the past few days. It’s an incredible book, very short and dense with original thought, and it’s hard to believe it’s so early in Nietzsche’s career, his first published work. The thinking is so subtle and complex, and the compression of his thinking reads like something from late in a philosopher’s career. In it, he questioned\u00a0the role\u00a0of science long before it became clear that technology\u00a0could actually replace human beings, as it appears ready to do, and he went back to Greek tragedy to find a creative focus around which he could cluster glancing\u00a0insights into art, philosophy and religion–in opposition to the notions of progress and rationality that arose with Socrates. I was softened up for a rereading of something by this\u00a0German thinker after listening to so many podcasts from Entitled Opinions (<\/em>whose host regularly revisits\u00a0Heidegger’s interrogation of Western civilization, a project he inherited\u00a0directly from Nietzsche, whose name also comes up regularly with guests on that Stanford University\u00a0program.)<\/p>\n

Now that I’ve reread this book, I think Nietzsche might actually have disapproved\u00a0of\u00a0the sort of painting I do, and that itself might be worth a post, because I would have something contra Nietzsche<\/em> to say on the matter, but he’s making me examine\u00a0the assumptions underlying what I do. Very little of what’s so powerful in this book relates much to the notions for which Nietzsche eventually came to be known: the ubermensch<\/em>, eternal recurrence, and so on. He returns again and again to the effect of music in classic Greek tragedy: how it unveils an entire world and an obliteration of the self in a kind of cosmic sorrow and wonder that employs\u00a0the\u00a0events and characters of the drama as a shield through which that sorrow can be experienced as joy. His thinking strikes me as insightful when it comes to how the cleverness and conceptualism of art in the past century has\u00a0broken it free of its\u00a0moorings. The loss of a\u00a0central mooring\u00a0is what he was lamenting already, just as modernism was coming to life–without being able to express directly what the crucial impetus of creative work\u00a0was<\/em>. So much to write, so little time . . . but I’ll be able to get back to posting soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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