The Last Icon:

The Last Icon is central to my work- it is an earth colored eye in the midst of a flesh & blood web, and indicates a sort of geo-existential subjectivity objectified. "Centrality" in general is symbolized by the eye, "context" by the web. It is also a pictogram word or "red letter" signature. The original watercolor painting had the reverse colors, the final painting being "developed" like a photograph from a negative. No Reproductions Please!

The Last Icon + Humbled Beyond a Word:

Humbled Beyond a Word ends with an incite to "break the last icon/ and become/ Humbled Beyond a Word" - which can mean breaking the representation of subjectivity, becoming subjective, and possibly "one" with everything, including the poem itself. The image is also related to the "flesh turned word key" image: words being like the keys that unlock the doors between individual subjectivities; plus the image somewhat "revolves" like a "revolution."

The Last Icon + Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks:

The Last Icon relates to Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks, in that it too concerns the subjective/objective split: the eye aligns with conscious taste withdrawing from the web of action (the web connecting with neural-networks of the brain); the painting ironically illustrates consciousness via an attempt at an unconscious signature gesture.

The Last Icon + Capital Regulation:

The Last Icon illustrates the dual aspect of laws, as both borders and the interconnected rules of nature. The eye pictures an individuality, yet the web indicates that the individuality is powerfully connected with its environment. Also, the eye designates bio-nomic force (the centered whole), while the web represents decentered technology (the bodily and physical parts): the one and the many.

The Last Icon + Muscle Head:

Whereas The Last Icon represents subjectivity objectified, Muscle Head depicts an objectifying ego, that "thingifies" the world, and loses it's own unification through lifting it's centralized consciousness. While the Last Icon confronts as simply being, Muscle Head tries to divert attention from itself.

The Last Icon + Humble Play List:

As The Last Icon resembles a black hole, the Humble Play List could be seen as songs sucked into the gravity of the poem Humbled Beyond a Word-- the poem being a mediator between the center of the painting which impossibly depicts all in the wink of an eye, and the fractured mirroring fragments of the Humble Play List. These three works display a progressive fragmentation and complication of the universal soul as echoed through other's art: A representation of a single moment repeated throughout time.

The Last Icon + Quantity/ Quality Big Bang:

Both The Last Icon and Quantity/Quality Big Bang designate a rupture in the relation between the original eternal whole and structured temporality.

Humbled Beyond a Word + The Last Icon:

Humbled Beyond a Word ends with an incite to "break the last icon/ and become/ Humbled Beyond a Word" - which can mean breaking the representation of subjectivity, becoming subjective, and possibly "one" with everything, including the poem itself. The image is also related to the "flesh turned word key" image: words being like the keys that unlock the doors between individual subjectivities; plus the image somewhat "revolves" like a "revolution."

Humbled Beyond a Word + Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks:

over lap, in that each advocates breaking with aesthetic convention in order to achieve higher consciousness. The poem itself illustrates concepts in the essay, juxtaposing authentic "style" generated texts (they were "recorded" and not fabricated) that were selected by my own taste: as a sort of collage of various types of experience.

Humbled Beyond a Word + Capital Regulation:

both relate the individual to society and relationships. The "prison cell" of the individual psyche connects with the border law that protects one's autonomy: yet doors connect individuals so people can share a linguistic space. Also, "a solid core subdivided up" relates the one to the many- the dialectic at the heart of the political essay. The poem tries to articulate an unspeakable being/love that the essay divides into laws.

Humbled Beyond a Word + Muscle Head:

Like the dream rebel of Humbled Beyond a Word, Muscle Head is on the run: yet with a different "weapon": the pointing finger. Opening up a frame to that beyond ego, at the same time, Muscle Head obstructs the way, (s)he is at the door. (S)he has one eye on you, yet another on the elsewhere that (s)he tries to divert your attention to. (S)he is also bound by a frame/prison cell.

Humbled Beyond a Word + Humble Play List:

Just as Humbled Beyond a Word conveys a visionary dark night of the soul, the various songs of the Humble Play List are about dreams, visions, rebellion from social convention, insane confrontation with death, and living with one another and the impossibility that reality as art and ego may be a lie.

Humbled Beyond a Word + Quantity/Quality Big Bang:

It was my thinking that Humbled Beyond a Word was in part inspired by the explosive passion of Christ - yet it also, like Quantity/Quality Big Bang may be seen as too abstract a portrayal of the Christ. Such may be the abstract nature of my art, but something may be fleshed out in the future, as I too grow as a person with relationships.

Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks + The Last Icon:

The Last Icon relates to Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks, in that it too concerns the subjective/objective split: the eye aligns with conscious taste withdrawing from the web of action (the web connecting with neural-networks of the brain); the painting ironically illustrates consciousness via an attempt at an unconscious signature gesture.

Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks + Humbeld Beyond a Word:

Humbled Beyond a Word and Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks over lap, in that each advocates breaking with aesthetic convention in order to achieve higher consciousness. The poem itself illustrates concepts in the essay, juxtaposing authentic "style" generated texts (they were "recorded" and not fabricated) that were selected by my own taste: as a sort of collage of various types of experience.

Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks:

An essay on aesthetics and cognitive science, proposing that style be seen as habituated unconscious action, with taste occurring in moments of lucid choice, brought about by the unfamiliar. The first half is a subjective dialectic of style and taste, while the second is an "objective" analysis of how those two concepts relate to the brain. The lucidity of choice relates to qualitative consciousness, while style relates to unconsciously produced brain activity. This subjective/objective split is situated and framed by social media.

Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks + Capital Regulation:

Capital Regulation is based on the assumption found in Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks, that there is a fundamental opposition between the one and the many that goes to the root of subjectivity's split from objectivity; and moreover, the very notion of inter-connected parts may be aligned with the very structure of the brain itself. The notion of inter-connected neuron nodes maps directly onto ecologically connected economic individuals.

Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks + Humble Play List:

The Humble Play List is an exercise in my taste (or tasteless) choosing- it is a music collage. The doubling of word meanings (giving the songs a different significance in the context of Humbled Beyond a Word) is directly related to the multiple connections that each term can have in a neural semantic network.

Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks + Quantity/Quality Big Bang:

Quantity/Quality Big Bang clearly represents the befuddlement of objectively (quantitatively) articulating the subjective (and qualitative). A Consciousness of color shaped by the mathematical physical reality of neurons.

Capital Regulation + The Last Icon:

The Last Icon illustrates the dual aspect of laws, as both borders and the interconnected rules of nature. The eye pictures an individuality, yet the web indicates that the individuality is powerfully connected with its environment. Also, the eye designates bio-nomic force (the centered whole), while the web represents decentered technology (the bodily and physical parts): the one and the many.

Capital Regulation + Humbled Beyond a Word:

Both Humbled Beyond a Word and Capital Regulation relate the individual to society and relationships. The "prison cell" of the individual psyche connects with the border law that protects one's autonomy: yet doors connect individuals so people can share a linguistic space. Also, "a solid core subdivided up" relates the one to the many- the dialectic at the heart of the political essay. The poem tries to articulate an unspeakable being/love that the essay divides into laws.

Capital Regulaion + Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks:

Capital Regulation is based on the assumption found in Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks, that there is a fundamental opposition between the one and the many that goes to the root of subjectivity's split from objectivity; and moreover, the very notion of inter-connected parts may be aligned with the very structure of the brain itself. The notion of inter-connected neuron nodes maps directly onto ecologically connected economic individuals.

Capital Regulation:

Discusses the political implications of balancing the one (economic individual) with the many (ecological society) - seeing that the respect and affinity found with love can be represented by laws that show respect for one another's personal space, and recognize the inter-connected affinity we have with each other and the environment.

Capital Regulation + Muscle Head:

Muscle Head is very much an individual seeking to protect an autonomous space- yet can not deny being infused with the ecological evolution that (s)he came from. The pointing finger might create property by "killing" nature.

Capital Regulation + Humble Play List:

The Humble Play List is a play between me as in individual artist, and other artists often conveying similar ideas-- a connection between my autonomy and my being intertwined with a community. Possibly there is a "one love" being conveyed by many lovers- yet they each have their own perspective on politics, and I can't always speak with them. I may have appropriated works with affinity to mine, but I've not stolen them: I hope to respect other artists' spaces too.

Capital Regulation + Quantity/Quality Big Bang:

Christ has much to do with passionate life and love, while laws have much to do with numbers, both with the laws of technical nature, and with numbers as that which count each individual as divided from another. Possibly it is through compassion (affinity) that we can see we each need respect (for our own spaces).

Muscle Head + The Last Icon:

Whereas The Last Icon represents subjectivity objectified, Muscle Head depicts an objectifying ego, that "thingifies" the world, and loses it's own unification through lifting it's centralized consciousness. While the Last Icon confronts as simply being, Muscle Head tries to divert attention from itself.

Muscle Head + Humbled Beyond a Word:

Like the dream rebel of Humbled Beyond a Word, Muscle Head is on the run: yet with a different "weapon": the pointing finger. Opening up a frame to that beyond ego, at the same time, Muscle Head obstructs the way, (s)he is at the door. (S)he has one eye on you, yet another on the elsewhere that (s)he tries to divert your attention to. (S)he is also bound by a frame/prison cell.

Muscle Head + Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks:

Muscle Head illustrates through a pointing fleshy finger, the leading edge of style; and with the clasped hand on the hat, the choosing element of taste. The opposition between physical objective body, and centered subjective consciousness is also represented by the muscular head (the brain being like a "muscle" that is strengthened through use) and by the centered sunlight in the cowboy hat.

Muscle Head + Capital Regulation:

Muscle Head is very much an individual seeking to protect an autonomous space- yet can not deny being infused with the ecological evolution that (s)he came from. The pointing finger might create property by "killing" nature.

Muscle Head + Humble Play List:

Like Muscle Head, the Humble Play List is a work of monumental ego and diversion: ego to appropriate all these works, as if to say "they're now mine too," (the pointing and selecting hands) and diversion of their original significance towards my own. Ego may see itself everywhere (we may all be a little like Muscle Head too) but may not like to be pinned down; so too, Humble Play List sees Humbled Beyond a Word everywhere, yet nothing is ever the exactly identical.

Muscle Head + Quantity/Quality Big Bang:

With Muscle Head and Quantity/Quality Big Bang, we see the repeated motif of centered consciousness, and divided physical number. Yet Quantity/Quality Big Bang is almost completely abstract, and without ego, whereas Muscle Head is almost all ego.

Humble Play List + The Last Icon:

As The Last Icon resembles a black hole, the Humble Play List could be seen as songs sucked into the gravity of the poem Humbled Beyond a Word-- the poem being a mediator between the center of the painting which impossibly depicts all in the wink of an eye, and the fractured mirroring fragments of the Humble Play List. These three works display a progressive fragmentation and complication of the universal soul as echoed through other's art: A representation of a single moment repeated throughout time.

Humble Play List + Humbled Beyond a Word:

Just as Humbled Beyond a Word conveys a visionary dark night of the soul, the various songs of the Humble Play List are about dreams, visions, rebellion from social convention, insane confrontation with death, and living with one another and the impossibility that reality as art and ego may be a lie.

Humble Play List + Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks:

The Humble Play List is an exercise in my taste (or tasteless) choosing- it is a music collage. The doubling of word meanings (giving the songs a different significance in the context of Humbled Beyond a Word) is directly related to the multiple connections that each term can have in a neural semantic network.

Humble Play List + Capital Regulation:

The Humble Play List is a play between me as in individual artist, and other artists often conveying similar ideas-- a connection between my autonomy and my being intertwined with a community. Possibly there is a "one love" being conveyed by many lovers- yet they each have their own perspective on politics, and I can't always speak with them. I may have appropriated works with affinity to mine, but I've not stolen them: I hope to respect other artists' spaces too.

Humble Play List + Muscle Head:

Like Muscle Head, the Humble Play List is a work of monumental ego and diversion: ego to appropriate all these works, as if to say "they're now mine too," (the pointing and selecting hands) and diversion of their original significance towards my own. Ego may see itself everywhere (we may all be a little like Muscle Head too) but may not like to be pinned down; so too, Humble Play List sees Humbled Beyond a Word everywhere, yet nothing is ever the exactly identical.

Humble Play List:

A post-modern opera that grew out of years of paranoia about my poem Humbled Beyond a Word. The "opera" is composed entirely of appropriated pop songs that are re-contextualized with reference to the poem.

Humble Play List + Quantity/Quality Big Bang:

Although the Humble Play List may not seem as close to the intersection of the Universal Soul and Physics as Quantity/Quality Big Bang, the two share a fragmented explosion of that universal core.

Quantity/Quality Big Bang + The Last Icon:

Both The Last Icon and Quantity/Quality Big Bang designate a rupture in the relation between the original eternal whole and structured temporality.

Quantity/Quality Big Bang + Humbled Beyond a Word:

It was my thinking that Humbled Beyond a Word was in part inspired by the explosive passion of Christ - yet it also, like Quantity/Quality Big Bang may be seen as too abstract a portrayal of the Christ. Such may be the abstract nature of my art, but something may be fleshed out in the future, as I too grow as a person with relationships.

Quantity/Quality Big Bang + Style, Taste, & Cyber-Networks:

Quantity/Quality Big Bang clearly represents the befuddlement of objectively (quantitatively) articulating the subjective (and qualitative). A Consciousness of color shaped by the mathematical physical reality of neurons.

Quantity/Quality Big Bang + Capital Regulation:

Christ has much to do with passionate life and love, while laws have much to do with numbers, both with the laws of technical nature, and with numbers as that which count each individual as divided from another. Possibly it is through compassion (affinity) that we can see we each need respect (for our own spaces).

Quantity/Quality Big Bang + Muscle Head:

With Muscle Head and Quantity/Quality Big Bang, we see the repeated motif of centered consciousness, and divided physical number. Yet Quantity/Quality Big Bang is almost completely abstract, and without ego, whereas Muscle Head is almost all ego.

Quantity/Quality Big Bang + Humble Play List:

Although the Humble Play List may not seem as close to the intersection of the Universal Soul and Physics as Quantity/Quality Big Bang, the two share a fragmented explosion of that universal core.

Quantity/Quality Big Bang:

Illustrates some of the absurd reality where the physical meets the symbolic: where the explosion of a universal Christ soul of qualitative subjectivity explodes into existence through quantitative structure. The life of color is crucified by the line of shape. Yet as spectators, we are often mediated by the surface, and see such only at a distance in time and space.