You know the clichĂ©: âIf I had a dollar every time someone told me...ââšWell, for me, itâs been people telling me to dumb my art down to the lowest common denominator for near two decades now like I am the problem. That exact impulse has been the main issue in the arts for decades. As the education system shifted, you no longer had to wrestle with the masters. You could just pick and choose from an easy buffet of surface-level referencesâusually ending up in postmodern garbage.
I was only willing to go so far. But I still had to make a living. And since the space only supports whatever it thinks it can sell, I definitely had to take some pioneer hits.But the pressure to dumb it down? Thatâs 180 degrees from what Iâm doing. Instead, Iâm publishing the sharpest, most challenging limits of my inspired thinkingâespecially now, since the bar is laughably low.
@01EricWeinstein was the one who exposed the failure and dead-ends of string theory in physics. I just applied the same principle to the arts. He went on podcasts not expecting everyone to understand himâhe raised the bar and invited others to rise to it. And for those it wasnât for? Kindly move along.
I took the most blasĂ© of formsâthe neon sign in the artsâand filled it with slogans, just to show that the form was never the problem. It was always about the coward-to-brave ratio. And in a way, yesâI just dumbed it down. On purpose. In short: If you want to use the blockchain for preserving art history, make it noteworthy.
A movement cannot be curated by the scared, or the desperate. So cheers to the very few who even have the courage to consider this piece & text exists.
Work: Curated By Cowardsâš 1/1 on Superrare Series:
âThings You Think and Believe but Canât Say Inside the Arts"
