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 »
Video stills drawn primarily from montage
This project is half-tangential, in that it has sprung from the priority placed on video itself.
However, it is key, as an indicator of filmic, or videographic, sensibility, and it gets thoroughly into the deep minutia inherent within the medium, and within all media, and the creative process, approached existentially.
In every selection, I am thinking of the interrelation between these media, fixations of sensibility and of technique, per se digital or otherwise.
However, it is key, as an indicator of filmic, or videographic, sensibility, and it gets thoroughly into the deep minutia inherent within the medium, and within all media, and the creative process, approached existentially.
In every selection, I am thinking of the interrelation between these media, fixations of sensibility and of technique, per se digital or otherwise.
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« Paris, réduite encore, tout vers la bibliothèque » Moment 11
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Paris, plus grande et étendue Moment 2
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Paris, plus grande et étendue Moment 4
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Baltimore 2018 67.70-68.2 Montage Moment 02
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« Paris, réduit encore, tout vers la bibliothèque » Moment 01This shot has been selected as a gesture towards ideas of quality aside from my interests in videographically super-imposed images.
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« Paris, réduit encore, tout vers la bibliothèque » Moment 02
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« Paris, réduit encore, tout vers la bibliothèque » Moment 03
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Paris, plus grande et étendue Moment 1
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Paris, plus grande et étendue Moment 2