The great western modernist experiment that began by treating everything as anatomy to be dissected and understood through finding ingredients and classifying results thus gaining control of our destiny by plotting cause and effect that is currently expressed by particle collision, neuroscience and psychiatry is fine and useful and important as it rules a lot of stuff out and adds to knowledge but

that same method requires that anything that cannot be understood through the method, that is, a slicing, tearing and smashing of its parts, known as proof, is outside of reality and unworthy of further investigation. That’s called dogma. Consciousness for example, doesn’t lend itself well to the methodology. So its either labelled The Hard Problem or the method contorts its own premises to account for it.

No, these aren’t paintings about dogmatic modernist methodology and how it fails to engage with consciousness. They’re just materials bumping up against my me-ness.

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