Self Portrait – Clown Relaxing At Home

Evil Clown Art Hobby
Medium: Cheap Acrylic On Watercolor Paper

A clown learns how to paint a self-portrait by mapping the values of his light and dark nature. The I is easily confused and easily fooled.

Mapping is an important method that allows the inner artist to see the 'subject' clearly and to draw it 'as it is' as opposed to 'how you like to think it is'.

It is spiritual realism stripped of superstition
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It is immaculate perception without archetypes

In as much as artistic representation is a process of mediation, the underlying form of all physicality when removed, or, in some cases, abstracted (anything, say, after post-painterly abstraction), restrains contextual tendencies to illusion-ism.

This 'Being in-itself' contrasted, as-it-were, with 'content'.

How then, can this 'Pure Art' be contained or retained if again connected, even with a golden umbilical cord, to subject matter?

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.

Subject matter need only be driven away from art if it is feared like a loathed infection; think about the ignorant but noble savages who drive away Frankenstein's reflection of [womb-less]man himself.

To detest something, even to ascribe to it malicious intent, is to give it power. Then it is a thing to be feared.

But be that as it may, if subject matter is not to be detested or treated like an unfortunate relation, then it need not hold LESS sway than other considerations – namely, form, context, inter-textuality or 'position'.

Now can representation be freed. And once freed, like all things, we find that it has nowhere else to go.

Evil Clown

Self policing is a humorous concept, have you ever know science to stop discovering of its own volition, profitable enterprises from seeking more profit, the military from training for war or a Chicago cop to pull themselves over and write up a ticket?

- Litotes The Clown

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