Triops (2024) graphite, string, acrylic on canvas By Anthony Stephenson A black hole is the beginning. It starts here. It is such that beyond the surface of engagement, there is no turning back. A spotting has occurred. From the cyclops of the third eye, our two eyes meet and look for a depth. The point being that, on the surface we might go no further than simple categorical objectification. But when go further, we get into a tug o’ war with what seems to be a struggle with three areas: First, we handle how things flow through ourselves – a thread that we might think of as wrestling with ourselves; Second, we often must negotiate our relationship to a specific Other – person, place, or thing; And third, our maneuvering among many other factors. In the “Triops” triptych, “Cel” is alone with the pure struggle of oneself in the milieu of signs, symbols and attempts at certitude and presence. Where with “Coup” there might be an actual negotiation for verifiability or clarity. And then the demands of the world must be met for “Plex” in which these previous struggles are dealt with on a larger scale. And perhaps, as was pointed out when they spoke of Faciality in “A Thousand Plateaus”, the proliferation of these black-hole eyes have a “bordering effect [that] acts to increase the surface over which the hole slides …” Or as Leonard Susskind says in “The Cosmic Landscape”: “ The universe “rolls” around on the Landscape and eventually comes to rest in a valley representing the usual vacuum.”
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