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When literally everything in an indoor or other artificial environment is freighted with intrinsic symbolic meaning, something without meaning may be the compli
by motohagiography 4y ago
When literally everything in an indoor or other artificial environment is freighted with intrinsic symbolic meaning, something without meaning may be the complimentary thing that completes it. Even machine or electric noise is the artifact of human intent.
Denying meaning doesn't annhialite it. Finding meaninglessness may be even more challenging than the search for meaning itself. This artist may also have made a monoply on authentically meaningless art, since anything informed by it is a coherent reflection.
I'd ask the artist, of what can meaninglessness be the effect?
- hemmert 4y agoI'd describe it as follows: The paintings are the side effect of me having an evening painting. For me, it's all about enjoying a nice evening, seeing the art come into being – with nothing I want to depict, express or evoke – and trying not to ruin the car with wet paint afterward. (As you can see from the paintings, I'm not the most tidy/cleanly person.) BUT then comes the meaninglessness stamp, and this really gives the entire thing meaning – the meaning of meaninglessness. I'm a huge fan of Douglas Hofstaedter's work (if you haven't read it, I can highly recommend his book 'I am a strange loop') and self-referential statements and things. And this is somehow what happened here: I only wanted to get out of the way, people should interpret the works as they like, it's about them feeling something. But HN, as HN is what we love it for, escalated this into a logic discussion.