About John
Baltimore City
I have produced art, consistently, since childhood. I found academic art education very rewarding, and have also greatly valued my years of post-academic creative production.
Ranging in all manners of theory and content, I have always been prolific.
I'm working on a grand sensibility which will unite my productions in all media.
All technical finitudes within all media are affecting my narrative process and all in conjunction with the "existentialism" involved.… more
Ranging in all manners of theory and content, I have always been prolific.
I'm working on a grand sensibility which will unite my productions in all media.
All technical finitudes within all media are affecting my narrative process and all in conjunction with the "existentialism" involved.… more
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Multi-Paradigmatic Painting : A Retrospective
I continue painting, though video is key, and I am currently digitizing all of my older analogue audio recording (largely for integration into video). "Multi-paradigmatic" is crucial to my entire outlook, in terms of any or all media. This idea is that any one artistically theoretical approach has its strengths, and possibly its weaknesses.
By revisiting works oveworks over time, in part, and more generally by being cognizant to multiple approaches, always, I hope to produce work that transcends the limitations of any one theoretical approach. Rather than rejecting content, for instance, in favor of any one approach to form, or optics, I would like to have all these assets at my disposal, reflected in my final results, though any one wave of activity may energetically emphasize one focus, or a few.
I hope, always, to flesh out this breadth, fairly flamboyantly, while retaining elegance that may be appreciated "simply".
By revisiting works oveworks over time, in part, and more generally by being cognizant to multiple approaches, always, I hope to produce work that transcends the limitations of any one theoretical approach. Rather than rejecting content, for instance, in favor of any one approach to form, or optics, I would like to have all these assets at my disposal, reflected in my final results, though any one wave of activity may energetically emphasize one focus, or a few.
I hope, always, to flesh out this breadth, fairly flamboyantly, while retaining elegance that may be appreciated "simply".
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"Between Two Valleys"
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"Fabulous Mithra"
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"Eternal Rome"
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"Puella, Somnium"
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"The Moment"
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"The Second Pastoral"
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"Studies From Rembrandt"
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"Strange Eurasian Twilight"
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"La Vierge (in displaced context)"An element of the "multi-paradigmatic", here, is that the painting's backdrop, the rooftop, the antenna, are traces of the painting when I'd been taking it in another direction. Then I set in with the Virgin Mary, with whatever symbolism, seen in bipolar terms relative to the abstract peculiarity around her. I like the power of this duality. Then, with the flat and non-polar aesthetics of the drab antenna, I set the moral drama aside, while also maxing out on it. I want all these things to serve, interactively and simultaneously, as conceptual springboards, with a result which makes the most of both forethought and whim.
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« La réalité des ténèbres, la synthèse »
The Ianto Trilogy
These are my first novel-length literary endeavors . . . I am currently working on a piece of dystopian fiction called "In The Shadows Of Nationalism".
Studies of Downtown Baltimore
This is a group of photos, taken exclusively in Downtown Baltimore, which emphasizes a particular aesthetic, largely one of sleek modernity and great volume, shown predominantly on clear and sunny days. (I have other photos which were also taken in Downtown Baltimore, but which are of another aesthetic.)
"Some French Vignettes"
My interests in the French language have become increasingly serious. I have taken an interest in the translation of French material into English.
More importantly, in this context, I have begun putting a few original French compositions together. Though I still generally think in English, there were no a priori English "originals" of these small pieces. They were conceived by me in French.
More importantly, in this context, I have begun putting a few original French compositions together. Though I still generally think in English, there were no a priori English "originals" of these small pieces. They were conceived by me in French.
"The Perfect State"
This is a literarily re-treated body of French-language text. All of the content is mine. It is derived from the French-language fraction of my facebook postings. The idea behind the project's title is that "Le Protagoniste", after a sort of personal heartbreak, lost himself in a world of political analysis and verbal assertiveness. (In truth, I'm very interested in using the medium, that of facebook, in a manner through which the medium is NOT the message. Internationalism, and a vast amount of earlier-Modern content, along with a beautiful proliferation of non-virtual sensibility, are very important in this. French-language interaction has been playing a very challenging and positive role.)
In The Shadows Of Nationalism
This is my first significantly non-autobiographical work. It opens with a brief novella entitled "The White Sunset", which is set some years into the non-distant future. The majority of the work takes place in the year 2073 and thereafter . . .