Once Out of Chaos

Navel gazing as art and involving another person. "work" that is the end result of what is essentially not good "art" in the first place is now transformed into a secondary thing even more removed from "art"

like watching dried paint dry

I loved this. Its indefatigably nothing about nothing. A complete waist of my time. Totally useless. Thanks William. Can I have yourr autograph?
S.O'D

A life-sized Twitter "Following" field. Hmm...

The kind of post that makes you think "Why?"

Contrary to commentators above, I found this to be a useful and interesting video. I don't happen to be a huge fan of op art (although I love Bridget Rileys' recent work which I saw last summer in Paris) yet there is something very beautiful about the intersection of the creative process with the materials of creation.

I am reminded of the pages of ink which John Cage produced by cleaning his pen as he composed: there is nothing intentional about their composition, but to take that object and organize and present it to an audience requires the audience to re-consider the creative process to re-consider the art object itself. Here, Galiana takes the by-product of the creative process and consciously organizes it into a pleasing form. You could even say that this work is even MORE intentional and intentionally sentimental or beautiful than "Silent Cells" which she organized using an-aesthetic criteria.

What we have here is a glimpse into the craft of organization: the process of collection and collation and creating connections both aesthetic and physical, which is the essence of language and taxonomy, and thus the ground from which aesthetics evolves.

my $0.02

Why?

...I like the chaos

Beautiful work.

The works made from remnants of larger works that an artists creates are always more arresting; they are present as stronger more personal sketches.

I loved the hands. Great. Its always so difficult to get the hands right. Beautiful.

Natural sounds and natural lighting inform this elegiac mediation on making — on art formulated and gridded from the detritus of painting were excellent...