Last time I realized that I had a dilemma.
Was my current lack of personal drama causing me to not start another series of paintings, or was it something else within me?
I went to sleep that night and had troubled dreams. My Maecenas woke me up at 4am and I was lit!
It was completely clear to me.
What I was missing was what one of the college professors I had an affair with called: “a lack of understanding the big picture.”
As difficult as Deceptors, like him, can be; he did teach me something new. Something that it took me until this morning to understand.
Brutality
While I revel in the self-inflected drama and brutality of my homewrecker relationships, the brutality that continues to be experienced by the world is not self-inflicted. It’s something people have had to live through since our species started.
I’m not going to get all political, but the people, usually Deceptors, who run corporations and government have proven that they revel in brutality on a world-wide scale.
Since no one invited them to engage with us in that manner and there’s no way to step out of the type of relationship we find ourselves in, I looked for something within my own experience that could help…other people.
I know, this all sounds terribly not like me. And that’s why I’m so excited to see if through art, and a hardcore extension of the application of art, can artists change the world. This time.
This isn’t a new idea. For centuries, if not longer, artists have tried to stop the brutality of Deceptors. But these movements have always failed on any sort of scale.
Little wins–Occasionally. Big wins–Never.
Neo Dada
If you know about the Dada art movement after the horrifying World War I, then you know that it’s anti-everything ethos didn’t succeed. It dissolved into Surrealism.
Unlike the others who came before me, mine isn’t quite as abstract in the sense that I have one clear goal for Neo Dadaism:
The only measurement is the ending of brutality
Here’s the beginning of my manifesto for what I call Neo Dada:
We hold the ongoing natural depopulation of earth to be a self-evident method at stopping brutality: yes, yes, in the hobby horse rhythm of falling fertility, where the boomboom of births slows to a whisper, dismantling the crowded carnage of conflicts with empty cradles and silent battlefields.
Read that again.
One solution is already being practiced by many in the world: plummeting child birth rates.
Neo Dada Art
Here’s the start of the Neo Dada Art Movement.
Unlike my other paintings, I’m going to create in a variety of styles, depending on who I’m focused on.
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- Me
- An individual person or people in a relationship
- An an agency (government or business)
More soon,