Something about computer death.

So yeah my laptop died. This would not be an issue if I had stuck to my plan of putting work online here there and everywhere. As it is I have all work in the cave, but only bits and pieces of it on line. 
 

What have I learned.:

• Backup my work at least once a month. (ironically my laptop died mid backup LOLS) 
• Have a regular day to update my website.  

Not a lot of lessons, but enough. 

I've also completed more of my current favorite 'glitchrait'. (although I am having an issue getting an exact hue I want. I'm pooped so just have a gander at the work below. 

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And barring a few tweaks this fresh slice of jamtart is finished.

D/c/mpr/ssi/n

Overt and outre. Stay analogue.

Something about whats been going on

I was going to write a truly righteous blog entry, but that fell through so this is just a tribute.
I'm busy working on a large scale portrait. I want to create layers of meaning, within the portrait. It's a very personal portrait, as it deals with my anxieties and feelings of rage. I could tell you all about the portrait, but that would remove all the fun for you.   

OH CH CH OH NH CH 

Also I've been working on a number of other projects.  A number of glitch portraits and  some text based projects. 

Rule 102 glitchrait

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I'm still working on my text based project. The ideas relating to it keep expanding, which keeps things interesting. But I don't want to post the full images.

Something with less words than last time

Other than thinking, I have also been daubing. Much- not all - of the daubings below have been influenced by the thoughts in the previous post.

First up is what happens when work sits around clogging up my space. This was previously called 'With teeth' but it had been bothering me for sometime in that it didn't look totally finished.

with teeth, oil and mixed media on re-purposed and primed board. 2015

Then this happened.....

I have also been pushing the generative work and I'm currently working on this,

Rule 102 (working title) , oil on canvas, 48" x30"

Rule 102, oil on canvas, 48" x 30" WIP

something about artists as censors

Wait a.. Whut? Two things yes I have managed to get back here with ina week and that head line. Artists as Censors. Well let me explain. This is where my head has been at since I seem to be on the other side of the whole fun depression/anxiety fest I was having.

Artists are censors. (Watch out for incoming science that I will probably get wrong.) Our experience of the world is really odd when you sit and think about it. Using all of our senses we soak up oceans of information. We process around 34 GIGABYTES of information a day through our social media usage and general informational noise. In a 2 hour face to face conversation we will pretty much equal our daily media diet.  Recent research suggests we can absorb 2.5 petabytes of data.  Here's the thing though. We don't use all this information. Our brain and consciousness (what ever that is) filter the information. So at any one time we are receiving just the information we need to complete a task ( or as our brains were programmed to do survive)
 

This iswhere my brain starts to boil. Oh i get the general drift of the science, but the intricacies seem to branch off into philosophy and questions about the very fabric and nature of reality very quickly. And if you know me you'll know I love those rabbit holes too much. 

So we can accept that the brain filters out 'non essential' information to allow us to function. This means or strongly suggests that my experience of the world is due to a set of filters different to your set of filters. But why artists as censors. As artists and indeed any one working in any creative field, or anyone trying to communicate to some one else, wechannel our ideas, sculpt them to fit the window we wish to show the world. To do this it is necessary to act as a censor. To actively filter out the information that distracts from or clutters our ideas.

As artists we censor our view of reality to construct a new view point that will have to work it's way through the filters of relevance in the minds of our audience.

That brings me on to my thoughts about meaning and semantics. But I'll leave those as thoughts and ideas unfiltered for you consumption, brewing in my little hairy Irish noggin.
 

Stay safe, take risks and watch out for stray syntax.

Afterword(s)
If my very genralised reading of the science here is questionable please let me know and fill me in. Either with a stern talking to, or by providing some friendly and easily digestiblelinks, preferably audio, (not video, I'm usually in the cave painting or looking after kids or just relaxing with the Milky one, so video does not get watched) Geez I'm demanding. Podcasts are ace!